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...most lucrative of many prizes which are now going begging for lack of takers is the $1,100 Bowdoin award for dissertations in English, which five prose-writers divide. Stringency of requirements cannot be the reason, for the essays must be "on any subject suitable for treatment in a literary form...
...team plays host to 11 colleges this Saturday in its annual giant invitation slalom at Mt. Bromley. Dartmouth, New Hampshire, Princeton, Colby, Williams, Amherst, Bowdoin, M. I. T., Middlebury, and Yale have all accepted, and the affair promises to include some of the best skiing seen in New England since the Dartmouth Winter Carnival last month...
...sedate old Murray Hill house was built in 1863, its walls rumored to be bulletproofed against Civil War draft rioters. George S. Bowdoin, a partner of J. P. Morgan, acquired it some 20 years later. In its backyard is a cemetery with eight weathered headstones-one for each of the chow dogs buried there by Bowdoin's spinster daughter, Edith, who died five years ago. What was left of gilt and ormolu in the house glistened under new fluorescent lights. Businesslike desks, clacking typewriters and paid workers crowded the high-ceilinged chambers...
...Taft. All last week Stassen trumpeted his new theme as he zigzagged across the top of New England, conferring with New Hampshire political leaders, downing a stack of pancakes covered with Vermont maple syrup, posing in front of a statue of Ethan Allen in Montpelier, addressing an audience of Bowdoin College students in Maine...
Team records so far are unconvincing. Of the 15 matches shot thus far, scores have returned from 12, with victories registered against only Bowdoin, Rochester Institute of Technology, Brown, and Mohawk. "Unimpressive," admits Hale Knight, "but with most of the league matches still ahead, we're not too worried...