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...special prize in the group is the Edwards Whitaker Prize Scholarship, to be awarded to the Freshman who shows the most outstanding scholastic ability and intellectual promise as indicated by his first half-year's work...
More men were at work in the endless miles of steel mills than in magic 1929. In smoky Homestead the Relief Office closed down last month for lack of patronage. More automobiles were sold in Allegheny County in the first six months of 1936 than in any other half-year on record. For the first time since the War Connellsville's 38,900 beehive coke ovens, now obsolete, were pouring soot into the murky atmosphere because the steel companies, short of steel scrap, needed more coke to make pig iron. Dispossessed residents of the ovens got jobs coking...
This decline is hard to explain, since the curriculum has been reorganized on lines formed by student reaction in the past. Formerly the first half-year dealt solely with American forms of Government and the second with foreign brands. This year less space will be devoted to the United States...
...pioneer in vitamin research, who will be a lecturer at the Medial School. Professor Gilson who is probably the foremost Catholic Philosopher in the world today, and who is a great authority on Descartes, and the whole Cartesian school, will be William James Lecturer on Philosophy for the first half-year...
Among the speakers at the symposium on "Authority and the Individual" was Corrado Gini, Professor of Statistics and Sociology at the University of Rome, and Visiting Lecturer at Harvard during the last half-year. After a discussion of the cyclical and permanent factors which influence the collective control of society over the individual, Professor Gini in his address on "Authority and the Individual during the Different Stages of Evolution of the Nations" expressed the hope that a consideration of them might aid in obtaining a better understanding between nations today...