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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First undergraduate prize of $500 was won by Walter J. Bate '39 of Richmond, Indiana for a work called "Negative Capability: Keats' Conception of the Poetical Character." Henry D. Oyen '41 took a $200 award for his essay "Irregular War" and the $100 third place award went to Archibald B. Roosevelt '40 for "The Smith in Song and Saga...
...Detroit, Mrs. Thomas J. Middleton, Negro, hired a steam shovel to dig holes in her back yard. A dream had revealed to her that gold was buried there. Neighbors were annoyed by the dust, smoke and noise. Said Mrs. Middleton: "They needn't be so uppity. I catch them digging in my back yard themselves at night since I had my visions...
...Newark, N. J., Mrs. Frances MacFarquhar, suing for divorce, submitted her diary in evidence. Excerpts: "January 28-Blackened my eye because I bought a fifteen-cent cake and did not turn over the change; March 13-He tripped me and tried to kick me through a window; March 26-He knocked me into the bathtub; June 12-He chased me with a hammer. . . ." Plaintiff MacFarquhar got the divorce...
Besides hearing his speech, the 225 Union members, in their last meeting of the academic year, will elect officers. Ernest J. Simmons '25, assistant professor of English and president of the Union, will probably sum up the organization's accomplishments since he took office last year...
Under the presidency of J. Raymond Walsh, whose dismissal two years ago drew protests from liberals all over the country, the Union's first year and a half of existence had been principally devoted to national and state support of organized labor...