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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John C. Melvin (Eng...
SCIENCE Mathematics A366 Biology D 216 Chemistry B 201 Chemistry 2 193 Physics C 181 Mathematics 2 174 Chemistry A 153 Geology 1 147 Physics B 128 Geography 1 93 Eng. Science 1a 84 Anthropology 1a 81 LANGUAGES English A 549 French E 357 German A 267 English A-1 202 English 52a 170 English 30a 157 German E 143 French C 141 English 7 135 English 1 134 Spanish 1 93 Latin B 68 OTHER FIELDS Fine Arts 1e 266 Psychology A 249 Music 1 204 Comp. Lit. 35a 195 Philosophy A 167 Philosophy C 110 Military...
...best steeplechasers are bred in Ireland. From England come literary thoroughbreds. Virginia Woolf's stepgrandfather was William Makepeace Thackeray. Half the most scholarly families in Eng-land-the Darwins, Maitlands, Symondses, Stracheys-are related to her. Her father, Sir Leslie Stephen, editor of the Cornhill Magazine and the Dictionary of National Biography, kept open house for the great literary men of his day (Meredith, Stevenson, Ruskin, Hardy, John Morley, Oliver Wendell Holmes). The classic dead crowded the shelves of his library. Though Virginia Woolf's experience was as restricted as Jane Austen's, her reading knew...
...previously supposed to have proved to Kidnapper Chang, that the Kidnappee-Dictator never was a sell-out to Japan but in his daily thoughts and deeds is a true, brave Chinese. Dictator & Mme Chiang made their first joint world radio broadcast last week, she in flawless Eng lish, he in Chinese. Static made it diffi cult to gather more than that they are still strong for their famed "New Life Movement," a form of Christian Chinese Puritanism...
...rattling good maritime joke, salty Lady Houston bought the Girl Pat for $16,500, said she was going to present her to the Orsbornes. The philanthropic widow who so admires virility planked down $2,500 more to cover the cost of returning the Girl Pat from Guiana to Eng land. Up in Old Bailey Court last week stood Dod & Jim Orsborne to plead not guilty of stealing the Girl Pat. As defense, they declared that they had made off with the trawler so that her owners could collect $15,000 insurance, which they...