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...Fourteen men of the Class of 1934 have won Freshman Prize Scholarships, which range from $100 to $500 according to the financial needs of the student. These prizes are given on the recommendation of the headmaster of the preparatory school confirmed by the Committee on Scholarships. The scholarships are awarded on a standard of thoroughness in preparation and exist for a number of schools each sending several graduates to the University...
...under a new plan, as compared with Freshman Halls and the Union. In the 1934 Halls a regular weekly rate is charged and the number of persons absent from meals makes up for the cost of extra orders. In the Houses three rates are charged, 10 meals for $7.50, fourteen for $8.50, and 21 meals for $10.50, and it is not known as yet whether this system will pay for the cost of operation when extra orders are given free Students will he requested to sign extra order slips, until the survey has been made, and a decision reached...
...Terror. The party was last seen by a whaler near the entrance to Lancaster Sound (west of Baffin Bay) on July 26, 1845. England grew alarmed at their continued disappearance, sent out rescue parties which explored thousands of arctic miles, succeeded in finding traces of the lost expedition. Fourteen years after Franklin's disappearance the camp of the expedition was located on the island and a diary found which told of their meeting with great ice packs. All their efforts to reach a Hudson's Bay Co.'s settlement were frustrated by the terrific northern gales with...
Little better able to make a choice than when the races started, the selection committee knows only that Enterprise is best in a breeze of five to ten miles per hour, Weetamoe from ten to fourteen, Yankee from fourteen up. Yet this scale is not completely accurate: Enterprise, with her heaviest mast stepped in, heeled over to an 18-mi. breeze and scooted past the old Resolute in an early test on Long Island Sound. Weetamoe has beaten Enterprise in light air. Whirlwind, prettiest looking of all, will be changed a lot before the final tests beginning...
Goucher. Although it ranks 16th in enrolment among U. S. women's colleges, the distinction and importance of Goucher College at Baltimore are disproportionate to its registration (985). Fourteen months ago its president, William Westley Guth, died. Nine months later acting President Hans Froelicher died. Then Dean Dorothy Stimson, cousin of Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, became acting president (TIME, Feb. 3). Last week Goucher acquired a full-fledged president, David Allan Robertson, A. B., longtime (1904-23) member of the University of Chicago's English faculty...