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Haig Gregory Abdian '30, of Arlington is the winner of the New York Times Current Events Contest which was held on February 15. The announcement was made public yesterday by Dr. J. F. Sly Ph.D. '26 of the Department of Government, who had charge of the examination at Harvard...
According to arrangements which had been made before the contest Abdian will receive the entire prize of $250 offered by the Times besides a New York Times medal. Honorable mention was given to Harry Herbert Kleinman '30, of Hartford, Connecticut, and to Robert Keen Lamb ocC, of Washington...
Abdian, who last year won second place in the Baldwin Municipal Government Contest, will have his paper submitted to the Executive Board and entered it a national contest where it will be judged along with the winning papers in 19 other colleges. A prize of $500 will be awarded the winner of this second test. C. E. Wyzanski '27 won this contest in 1926. Last year's Harvard contest was won by T. A. McGovern '29, who was just recently appointed Rhodes Scholar at large for the country...
Thirty-two prospective orators enrolled in the competition for the Lee Wade and Boylston Prize Speaking Contest before registration closed at 5 o'clock yesterday in Holden Chapel...
...most modest senior" is nothing, however, to that of telling who he is once you have him. Here as nowhere else must Harvard congratulate her traditional rival; powers of selection such as this are scarcely to be found even in the judges of the Atlantic City beauty contest, who, one is lead to believe, yearly pick the "best looking" American. Not content with mere externals, however, Yale Seniors confidently proceed to confound the personnel workers of a nation by the closest determination of so-called personality traits...