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Frank Martin Snowden, Jr. '32, of Roxbury, has won the $75 Bowdoin Prize in Classics, for a translation into Attic Greek. Honorable mention is given to H. L. Bisbee '32, who gained the prize last year...
...Graduate School a Bowdoin prize of $300 was awarded to David Fleisher 2G, of Brooklyn, New York, in the fields of English, Fine Arts, and Music, for an essay entitled "Bacon's 'Essays' and Castiglione's 'Courtier'". G. E. Stead 1G and M. W. Eccles 4G earned honorable mention. In the fields of Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, and Engineering, the award of $300 went to William Fausset Bruce, Ph.D. '31, of West Somerville, for an essay entitled "The Stereoiserism of Oximes." J. D. Squires 1G and E. S. Redford 2G both obtained honorable mention for their work in the fields...
Gilbert Kahn '32, Russell Maloney '32, Melvin Leon Anshen '33, and Richard Norman Clark, Jr., have received first, second and third prizes, and Honorable Mention, respectively, in the competition for the Bowdoin undergraduate award for a "Dissertation in English...
...Bowdoin College, Tapping S. Reeve, 20, of Detroit, a freshman, was throwing the javelin for practice. Modern javelins are straight wooden rods 8.5 ft. long, weighing 1.6 lb. They are tipped with steel. In making the throw the expert runs swiftly for a stretch, stops short and heaves the rod past his ear. In effect he makes a throwing sling of his entire body...
...dance, though no mate was there to see it. More & more lonely he grew, began to boom (spread his feathers, inflate his sacs, dance) in places where no heath-cock had ever been known to boom before. Then he too disappeared and last summer Professor Alfred Otto Gross of Bowdoin College read his obituary before the American Game Conference. But suddenly he appeared again, sadder, more lonely than ever. Last week watchers on Martha's Vineyard heard him booming...