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...principles on which the award is made distinguish it from other trophies such as the Wingate and Wendell awards in baseball in which excellence, is the criterion. The donors of the Tudor Trophy have taken another yardstick by which to base their choice; the recipient's value to Harvard hockey, not so much in his superior ability as in his service, development and possession of that intangible quality "heart". According to the donors these are the qualities which they found were best exemplified in the man whose name the Trophy bears. It is not only a fitting tribute...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TUDOR TROPHY | 4/18/1930 | See Source »

...Judge me, O God," cried the voice of Petrus, "and distinguish my cause from the nation that is not holy. Deliver me from the unjust and deceitful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Petrus v. Satanus | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

...about 6.30 o'clock in the evenings now an observer can distinguish the comet with his naked eye a little north of due west. Calculations which have been made of the comet's position for each day until April 10 indicate that it will be nearest the sun on March 28, growing gradually fainter after that date...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ORBIT OF WILKES COMET IS COMPUTED BY OBSERVATORY | 3/27/1930 | See Source »

...general public, the technicalities that distinguish these degrees are unknown, and only the vague idea that a graduate with an S.B. is probably learned in Science, and an A.B. in Arts, exists. But the reasoning is sound enough; much more so than the desire to maintain an outworn tradition from the time when Latin and Greek were the two poles of a liberal education. On the practical side, the present system is sometimes not brought to the attention of students in Modern Languages until it is too late for them to add the extra quantity of the humanities that would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO DEGREES | 3/21/1930 | See Source »

...announcing the lecture Professor Parker said, "The German scientist is interested chiefly in the habits of insects, and has recently demonstrated conclusively that bees and similar insects possess a distinct sense of color, with which they distinguish the various flowers. By an ingenious arrangement of colored plates and dishes of honey water Professor Frisch succeeded in training bees to come to a particular color for their food, thus refuting other investigators who had maintained that all insects are color-blind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VON FRISCH TO LECTURE ON HABITS OF INSECTS | 3/15/1930 | See Source »

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