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...Cattell printed no comment. Sequestered last week at his home in Garrison, N. Y., the old psychologist said he would make no public rebuttal, but asserted, as he has done before, that voting on star candidates is a more precise determination of scientific merit than election to the National Academy of Sciences, No. 1 U. S. learned body...
According to the French report, Ethiopian indignation spreading in ever-widening ripples from Addis Ababa has generated native "passive resistance" on a large scale, with food now growing scarce in Italian garrison towns as Ethiopians stubbornly refuse to sell. Agents of the British Secret Service are doing all they can in Ethiopia to further and foment such native discontent, according to the French Secret Service reports, and Ethiopians are being incited to assassinate Italians...
...five liberals who were named on the petition are Robert M. Lovett '12, professor at the University of Chicago and identified with labor movements there; Roger N. Baldwin '05, president of the American Civil Liberties Union; Lloyd K. Garrison '19, dean of the Wisconsin University Law School; Corliss Lamont '24, well known liberal of New York; and Julian W. Mack '87, New York judge. The name of the latter is, however, being placed on the ballot because of a petition received previously which had the necessary 200 signatures all of which were eligible...
Junior year he won the Garrison prize for poetry and the Hackenroder medal for the best historical essay. He never went home for vacations any more. His father was afraid of him. He sent him checks for large sums intermittently. The boy never asked for money. He had little use for it. There were always three or four of his father's checks lying around un cashed in his room...
...winner of a Detur Prize and editor of the CRIMSON, chairman of the Eliot House Committee, and a first group scholar. He is concentrating in History. Viereck prepared at Horace Mann School, is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, is a first group scholar, is winner of Lloyd McKim Garrison and Detur Prizes, and is an editor of the Guardian. His field is History and Literature...