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Daniel Joseph Boorstin '34 of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Meyer Howard Abrams '34 of Long Branch, New Jersey, have been respectively awarded the first and second prizes in the Bowdoin Prize Essay contest for excellence in English essay writing. The awards carry stipends of $500 and $300 each. Boorstin's subject was "The Unspoken Laminations on History with Illustrations from Gibbon," while Abrams wrote on "The Effect of Opium and Other Drugs on English Literature...
...Boorstin came to Harvard from Tulsa Central High School and distinguished himself during his Freshman year by winning the Coolidge prize as the best debater in the Freshman trials for the triangular debates and receiving a Detour. In the next year he won the Barrette Wendell Prize in History and Literature, and received an honorary John Harvard Scholarship. Last year he was elected in the Junior Eight of Phi Beta Kappa, and he became first marshall of the Society. Last fall he was one of the three Harvard men awarded Rhodes scholarships. He has been a member of the University...
...cannot improve education at Harvard, if that is your aim, by making petty attacks on the personalities, evidently unknown to you, of departmental executives. D. J. Boorstin '34. R. B. Schlatter...
Daniel Joseph Boorstin '34, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, has been awarded one of the scholarships offered by the Gulf Division of the Rhodes Foundation; Richard Bulger Schlatter '34, of Fostoria, Ohio, the New England Division award; and Richard Murphey Goodwin '34, of Newcastle, Indiana, the Central Division scholarship, it was announced last night by Frank Aydelotte, chairman of the Rhodes Scholarship Committee...
...Boorstin is First Marshal of Phi Beta Kappa, a member of the editorial boards of the CRIMSON and the Harvard Critic. He prepared at Tulsa High School and is a resident of Eliot House. Schlatter is one of the leading scholars of his class, an editor of the Harvard Critic, and is a resident of Lowell House. Goodwin, who is also a member of Lowell, is, like Boorstin, an editor of both the CRIMSON and the Harvard Critic...