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Every year a committee, consisting of a churchman (Bishop John Hurst), a writer (Dorothy Canfield Fisher), a politician (Theodore Roosevelt), a financier (James H. Dillard), an educator (John Hope, President of Morehouse College), and an editor (W. E. DuBois of The Crisis'), awards a prize to "an American of African descent who has performed the highest achievement in some form of human endeavor." This prize is known as the Spingarn medal...
Broad Jump.--Won by Comins, Yale, 24ft. 8in.; second, Rose, Penn. 24ft. 3 11-16in.; third, Boren, California, 24ft. 1 5-8in.; fourth, Wilson, Southern California, 22ft. 9 1-2in.; fifth, tie between Canfield, Dartmouth, and Watson, Colgate, 22ft...
...right next to Vermont. From Amherst he was graduated in '94 when Cal Coolidge was a Junior. Four years later he was graduated from Columbia Law School. Thereafter he began simultaneously to practice law and to teach (at Columbia). He became a member of the firm of Satterlee, Canfield & Stone. In 1910 he became Dean of the Columbia Law School. A year ago he was given leave of absence as Dean and became a member of Sullivan & Cromwell...
William Allen White, famed editor of the Emporia Gazette: "In a speech before the Writers' Club of Columbia University, I stated that the four greatest writers of fiction in America today are Willa Cather, Edna Ferber [see Page 14], Zona Gale, Dorothy Canfield. I also stated that I am 'trying to write a kindly biography of Woodrow Wilson, whose aims I have always believed in, though I sometimes despised his methods...
...summary: Harvard 1927 St. Paul's School Scott, Cross, l.w. r.w., Baldwin, Roby Zarakov, c. c., Satterswhaite Hamlen, Burnett, r.w. l.w., Ryan, Walker Bohlen, Wylde, l.d. r.d., Manville Coady, r.d. l.d., Watts Flood, g. g., Canfield...