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...only do most of the National Scholars spend their summers holding down regular jobs in farming, business, or industry, but also their tendency has been to do two or three different types of work apiece in the last five years, according to results of a poll taken by Henry Chauncey '28, assistant dean of the College...
...Dean Chauncey questioned 67 holders of the scholarships in the Senior, Junior, and Sophomore classes on their activities during the vacation months since their junior years in high school, and the answers give a definite proof that "Mr. Conant's little boys" do not spend their summers with their noses in textbooks...
Died. Matthew ("Matt") Chauncey Brush, 63, retired (1933) head of American International Corp.; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Among present-day Wall Streeters, handsome, bushy-haired Matt Brush symbolized the bygone Terrific Twenties. A born speculator, Brush went east from Kansas to make a fortune. His financial strategy first made him director of the dilapidated Boston "L"; some 50 other companies by 1929. During World War I he managed the great Hog Island Shipyard. A confirmed bachelor until 56, he then married his 33-year-old secretary. His hobby: collecting 2,000 model elephants, some as big as dogs...
Prep school football is just another extra-curricular activity to the authorities who pick candidates for admission and scholarships at Harvard, according to Miss Anne MacDonald, assistant to the Chairman of the Committee on Admission, and Henry Chauncey, Assistant Dean in charge of Scholarships...
However, Dean Chauncey pointed out, football is not considered any more important in the record of a candidate than are work on the school paper or the school year book. And, as in the case of admissions, men with exceptionally high marks are admitted without reference to their activities outside of school work...