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Yachtsman Harold Stirling Vanderbilt announced that Ranger will be the name of the sloop now being built at the Bath (Me.) Iron Works, with which he hopes to defend the America's Cup this summer. Ranger is the namesake of the first U. S. man-of-war to hoist the new national flag and the first to receive an official salute from a foreign nation...
Under the direction of scholarly, cultivated George Harold Edgell, Harvard's School of Architecture for many years gave sound traditional training to graduate students, attracted few young rebels to its courses. Last week the School of Architecture startled the U. S. building world by offering a professorship to Walter Gropius, one of the founders of the concrete-pipe-and-plate-glass school of architectural modernism known as the "International Style."* Herr Gropius, since 1934 a self-exile from Nazi Germany, cordially accepted...
...Harold M. Hays, Episcopalian brother of the Jewish civil libertarian, Arthur Garfield Hays, operates two private hospitals in Manhattan. He also is an otolaryngologist of note and gets many cases referred to him from other physicians. "It is possible that as many as 60% to 70% of the 14,000 doctors in the metropolitan area are engaged in this pernicious practice of splitting fees. Best evidence we have of this is the vote taken last month by the Kings County Medical Society, when 579 out of 770 doctors voted against establishing a law to stop the practice...
...other hand, History 1 and Government 1 both return students' blue books shortly after the second semester starts. Economics A, under the guidance of Harold H. Burbank, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy, pursued a unique policy. In this latter course, Professor Burbank goes over a large sample of the books after the grades have been returned, as a means of checking the work of both the students and the faculty section...
President Harold W. Dodds, of Princeton, in announcing that his college would cooperate in the plan, stressed the time which would be saved in awarding scholarships to new men and remarked that "successful operation of the new plan of the College Entrance Examination Board will help towards an improved basis of scholarship awards to Freshmen, one of the present-day problems in college administration...