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...Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports has approved the award of insignia and numerals to 155 undergraduates who played on the various Harvard football teams last fall it was announced yesterday...
With regard to football and baseball, men retained have often gone through the season without award, whereas if they had been cut, they might have received the minor insignia with the second team. The new ruling would be commendable, except in the special case of Seniors who have played three years on the squad, but never opposed Yale. Here it has often been the custom for the player to be voted a major H. If this custom could be continued, with the minor letters being awarded at the end of Sophomore and Junior years, the recommendation would be of advantage...
Anyway, it's something to think about. And in fairness to the originators, Time Out suggests the awarding of an "H" to Messers Noyes and Hammond with suitable insignia. For instance, one house could have a rococo "H" with two lumps of sugar. The other, since Houses must be distinctive, could surmount the blazer with an "H", and perhaps, a lemon...
...been advancing at Court toward privy councillorship - Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (1911), Companion of the Bath (1916), Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (1918), Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George (1919), Knight Commander of the Bath (1926). (He must wear the insignia of those orders at the Winnipeg medical convention.) Professionally he had been "made" long before. It is ten years since his grateful monarch and good friend elevated him to the peerage. He chose the title Lord Dawson of Penn because (it is said) he traces his ancestry to the great William...
...Curtiss Condor biplane, taxiing to its hangar at a Long Island airport, suddenly ground looped, plowed into a crowd of holiday spectators. The whirling propellers killed a man and a wife. The plane bore the insignia of T. A. T.-Maddux Air Lines. Col. Lindbergh is technical adviser of T. A. T.-Maddux. Daily News screamed in full width headlines: LINDBERGH LINER KILLS...