Word: deturs
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These prizes, although already conferred by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, are not yet ready for distribution and will be awarded in April. The list of Detur winners is as follows...
...list of Detur winners is as follows...
...list of Detur winners is as follows...
...Freshman gets several A's. Finally, in the autumn of his Sophomore year, his name appears in the CRIMSON, and he receives a notice that he has won a John Harvard Scholarship. He may hear in a vague way that there is such a thing as a Detur,--a most mysterious object,--attached to a John Harvard Scholarship. No official communication about it reaches him, but at length he learns that it is a book, and that it must be applied for. Upon application, it develops that it is not given out until after the Commencement of his Sophomore year...
While in College Cutting was distinguished in scholarship, receiving three John Harvard Scholarships and a detur. He also took an active part in minor athletics. Later he entered the diplomatic service, but was compelled to resign on account of ill health. At the time of his death he was engaged in collecting material for a course of lectures to be given at Harvard...