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During the war, Mr. Sperry held the chairmanship of three different committees under the Naval Consulting Board. He is a member of a number of important mechanical and electrical societies and one of the founders of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the American Electro-Chemical Society. The Aero Club of France awarded him first prize in 1914, and in 1915 he took the Grand Prize at the San Francisco International Exposition for gyro-compass and gyroscopes. One of the most interesting of Mr. Sperry's awards is his decoration for navigational equipment by the late ex-Czar Nicholas...
...time the guest of the British government, in Paris for part of the Peace Conference, and in Belgium and Germany. He is associated with the League of Nations Union, of which Lord Robert Cecil is chairman, and with the World's Adult, and Sailors' Adult, Educational Movements, holding the chairmanship of the latter organization. Mr. Vaughan's appearance here tonight is of particular interest, coming as it does on the heels of Premier Hughes' statement yesterday in regard to Australia's stand for a "White Australia...
...committee, made up of Faculty members and interested students, under the chairmanship of Matthew Luce '91. Regent of the University, has for its object the aiding of foreign students in the selection of their studies...
...appointment of Mr. Henry Penny-packer, headmaster of the Boston Latin School, to the chairmanship of the Committee on Admissions at Harvard is an event of more than ordinary significance in the educational world. It indicates a way in which both the colleges and the schools may ultimately solve the difficult problem of adjusting admission requirements in a manner satisfactory to both. The schools have hitherto accounted it a grievance that the administration of these requirements has invariably been controlled by men who viewed the entire matter from the college standpoint and who did not appreciate fully the needs...
Henry Pennypacker, headmaster of the Boston Latin School, has been appointed chairman of the Committee on Admission at the University, and has accepted the appointment. He will take the place of John Goddard Hart '93, who has resigned the chairmanship of the committee...