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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Conant will address the Freshman class at 7:30 o'clock on Tuesday evening...
James M. Tobin '38 of Champaign, Ill., has been awarded the Palfrey Exhibition prize of $200 given annually to "the most distinguished scholar in the senior class who is a recipient of a stipendiary scholarship...
...graduated from University High School in Urbana, Ill. has held a Harvard National Scholarship throughout college, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year, and is now first marshal of Phi Beta Kappa. His field of study is economics. He is on the Student Council, the Class Album Committee, the Guardian magazine editorial staff, and the Student Union, and has taken part in debating. He was winner of the Briggs Prize book, given annually to the freshman who writes the outstanding midyear examination essay in the European history survey course...
...parental interest in Yale for a good long while. When at the beginning of the eighteenth century the Apleys and Aldens of New England felt that theologically Harvard was slipping into radical sloughs, they realized a perennial dream for a college in Calvinist Connecticut. The Rev. Pierpont, Class of 1681, obtained a charter, and the Rev. Pierson, Class of 1668, was chosen rector. In 1716 the "Collegiate School of Connecticut" was permanently established in New Haven, and at the suggestion of Cotton Mather, another Harvard man, it received the name of Elihu Yale, a Boston native who, like John Harvard...
Almost a fourth of last year's graduating class had never taken a course in History, Government, or Economics, and all indications point to an even larger proportion during the next few years. If this trend is contrasted with the growing complexity of the political conditions that graduates will have to face, it becomes more evident that Harvard should take some steps to require a background in the social sciences...