Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tall and quiet like his brother, "Stu" is not a managing editor (of which there are two on the Brown Daily Herald) but is the Editor-in-Chief of the Amherst Student. Intellectually brilliant, last week he was also elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He is president of his class this year, is one of the three members of his class on the Student Council, and was a member of the student committee of three formed to investigate the class cut system at Amherst. He was the only member of this committee to agree with the faculty committee...
Recognized on the Amherst campus for his intellectual prowess, Hughes used to conduct discussions before a sizeable body of students in his room freshman year the night before history quizzes. Favorite pupil of popular, brilliant Professor Laurence B. Packard, head of Amherst's history department, under the inspiration of this man he has decided to take up the study of history as his life work. His brother is planning to take up architecture, leaving the field of law unexplored by this third generation of a family of great lawyers...
Hakim Bakhtyar Rustomji Ratanji, a high-strung Mohammedan with a natural flair for obstetrics, won his brilliant academic way to Edinburgh in 1927 and in this dingy grey and bleak seat of Scottish learning seduced a waitress by the name of Isabella Van Hess. Student Ratanji was then using the name "Gabriel Hakin," but on marrying his waitress he proceeded to become legally "Buck Ruxton." Soon, as Dr. Ruxton, he became a popular and prosperous gynecologist who delivered hundreds of well-to-do Lancaster mothers and had last week a fine snug house in Dalton Square...
President Conant's address last night revolved about two poles: Harvard's present and the excuse for the existence of privately-endowed institutions of learning, and Harvard's future, which promises to be a brilliant one if the long-range plans of the President reach fulfillment...
Facing an immensely powerful Yale aggregation which has stretched the Eli winning streak this year to 150 consecutive victories, a fighting Crimson swimming team will invade New Haven today determined to make a desperate try to keep unsmirched its brilliant 1936 record...