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...Andrew Beaumont Steever '35, of Easton Pennsylvania, a student in the Engineering School, has won the Clemens Herschel Prize in Hydraulics awarded annually to the student who does the best work in hydraulic or sanitary engineering, it was announced today...
Other notable items on display are: copies of the second, third and fourth editions of the folio, with the fourth edition in its original binding; a folio edition, 1647, of the plays of Beaumont and Fletcher, a volume belonging originally to the Earl of Bridgewater, elder brother to Milton's Comus; a copy of a 1640 edition of Shakespeare's Poems in the original calf binding; a 1577 edition of Hollinshed's Chronicles, opened to a woodcut of the meeting between Macbeth and Banquo and the three witches; and the first collected edition of Jonson's Discoveries with attention drawn...
...doubt in an epee match. The weapons are tipped with tell-tale red ink. The men who did the most red-inking in the Thompson epee bouts were a slim, drawling southerner, Lieut. Gustave M. Heiss, 1933-34 U. S. champion, and a British antiquarian, Charles Louis de Beaumont. They scored three triumphs each and tied the bout in which they faced each other. In the total scoring, the U. S. team, none over 29, had considerable edge over their challengers, whose combined ages were almost twice as great. The U. S. team went into the sabre event leading...
...Beaumont published his book in 1833. Earlier this centennial year the Philadelphia College of Physicians, the University of California Medical School and the Wayne County (Detroit) Medical Society (among others) conducted memorial meetings and exhibits. This week the New York Academy of Medicine begins an elaborate commemoration with some 300 Beaumont items on display-photostats of private papers (from Washington University, St. Louis, whose medical school Beaumont helped found ), photographic reproductions of every Beaumont portrait known, and two photographs of Alexis St. Martin...
...Beaumont was unable to do everything he wished with St. Martin's stomach. Shortly after the book's publication the French Canadian returned home for good. Dr. Beaumont ultimately resigned from the Army medical corps, established himself in St. Louis. There his reputation as a peerer into organs threw him into court. He had trephined a broken skull. Hostile doctors testified that he had done so to see what was going on in the dying man's brain. The court acquitted Dr. Beaumont. In 1853, aged 67, he slipped on an icy flight of steps, developed...