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Students at St. John's wore uniforms until 1826; black hat, blue coat, trousers grey in winter, white in summer. They took military training until a few years ago, when it was abolished by Lieut.-Colonel Enoch Barton Garey, only military head St. John's ever had. Lieut-Colonel Garey resigned in 1929. Douglas Gordon became acting president last May. Since then he has introduced partial substitution of theses for course examinations, tutorial conferences and individual reading for classroom work...
Thirty-six years before Judge began, George Wilkes and Enoch Camp established in Manhattan the National Police Gazette. Purpose: "To assist the operations of the police department . . . by publishing a minute description of felons' names, aliases and persons," offering "a most interesting record of horrid murders, outrageous robberies, bold forgeries, astounding burglaries, hideous rapes, vulgar seductions." Like Judge, the Police Gazette tried to live up to its founders' precepts, but languished with the rise of modern tabloid journalism. Insolvent for four months, it suspended publication last month. Last week Irving Trust Co. also...
Once considered a smart young bad boy of English letters, Aldous Huxley is conquering his cleverness, subduing it to a useful tool. Born a highbrow, he has become an uncommonly sensible intellectual realist. There are times in this collection of essays when he reminds you of the late forthright Enoch Arnold Bennett. The voice is similar but the hands are different: for Huxley is on the whole preoccupied with universal, not parochial, themes...
Among the awards distributed for study abroad, the following seven Dexter Scholarships, to encourage studies in England, and one Sheldon Fellowship in Economics, are included: Roger Enoch Bennett 3G, of Charleston, Ohio; John d'Auby Briscoe of Fairplay, Colorado; John Lee Brooks 3G, of Dallas, Texas; Charles Chretien 1G, of Yonkers, New York; Robert Adolph Luther Mortvedt 3G, of Joliet, Illinois; Theodore Francis Moorhouse Newton 3G, of Montreal, Canada; Hamilton Martin Smyser 5G, of Delaware, Ohio; and Noobar Retheos Danielian 3G, of Watertown...
Douglas Huntley Gordon '26, of Baltimore, has been elected President of St. John's College in Annapolis. Gordon, who is one of the youngest college presidents in the country, succeeds Dr. Enoch B. Garey, who was president from 1923 until...