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Word has been received from the Vatican City that George D. Birkhoff, Perkins Professor of Mathematics, has been awarded the biennial prize of 10,000 lira by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences for his memoir on the systems of differential equations. The prize award was conferred by Pope Plus XI, and in Professor Birkhoff's absence it was accepted for him by Professor Tallio Levi-Civita, member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences...
Altogether 150 famed and near-famed serious students of large human affairs completed last week at the Canadian Pacific's magnificent hotel at Banff, Alberta, a fortnight's "roundtable" study of the Pacific-the fifth biennial conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations...
...Chicago's Stevens Hotel last week went 2,000 self-supporting women to attend the biennial convention of the Federation of Business & Professional Women's Clubs. Between ballotings and speeches they anxiously discussed the progress of professional women during the depression...
Strengthened by several American stars, an Oxford-Cambridge track team will invade the Harvard Stadium on July 8 to oppose a favored Harvard-Yale group in the biennial British-American track classic. Of especial interest to Harvard men will be the return of Oscar Sutermeister '32, now studying at Cambridge, and of N. P. Hallowell "32, wearing the Dark Blue of Oxford, to compete against their fellow countrymen in the pole vault and half mile respectively. Byles of Princeton and Stanwood of Bowdoin are also on the British team. Stanwood made history for Oxford last March by winning three firsts...
When last week ended in Minneapolis the people, of the town thought that they had never seen so many ladies or heard so much music. The ladies, 3,000 of them, had come from all over the U. S. for the biennial convention of the National Federation of Music Clubs. They congregated in front of the University of Minnesota's Northrop Memorial Auditorium, lined up behind their State banners and marched inside to hear the Minneapolis Symphony play the opening concert. For seven days thereafter music and musical talk flowed like liquor at an American Legion convention...