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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ritz-Carlton Hotel, 1,500 guests enjoyed some $50,000 worth of entertainment in honor of the coming out of Brenda Diana Duff Frazier. The social spectrum ranged from Cafe Society's fat impresario, Elsa Maxwell, to Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt. The proceedings which lasted till 7 a. m. were news not only in Manhattan but in Chicago, Minneapolis, San Francisco, St. Louis, Atlanta, Seattle, Los Angeles. Two days later an official seal was set on Brenda Frazier's glamor by a court accounting showing that this "infant over 14" has several trust funds with assets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: At the Ritz | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...Robert M. Boyd '41, of New York City and Lowell House was awarded the Jacob Wendell Scholarship given annually to an outstanding scholar in the sophomore class. The prize scholarship, awarded regardless of financial status, carries a stipend of $500, and automatically makes the recipient a member of the society of previous winners who dine with the Wendell family and the President of Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROBERT BOYD AWARDED WENDELL SCHOLARSHIP | 1/6/1939 | See Source »

Among the thirty-seven previous recipients of the Wendell scholarship are Samuel H. Cross '12, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard; Robert M. Green '02, Associate Professor of Applied Anatomy at Harvard; Seth T. Gane '07, Boston, secretary of the class of 1907 and former treasurer of Phi Beta Kappa; Jeffries Wyman Jr. '23 Associate Professor of zoology at Harvard; Mason Hammond '25, Assistant Professor of History and of Greek and Latin at Harvard; and George Is, Haskins '35, Junior Member of the Society of Fellows at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROBERT BOYD AWARDED WENDELL SCHOLARSHIP | 1/6/1939 | See Source »

From all indications it appears that Greenwood will bring to the Indoor Athletic Building a rather weak team as it has in the past. Hailing from Gardner, Massachusetts, where the "Memorial" is a club of the Y. M. C. A. variety, the Greenwood boys will have the rely upon their nerve rather than their swimming ability to score many points against the Ulenmen...

Author: By Charles N. Pollak ii, | Title: Varsity Tankmen Meet Greenwood Memorial Swimmers Tomorrow Night | 1/6/1939 | See Source »

...brilliant, hard-working student who finished his undergraduate course in three years, took an M. A. in his fourth. His interests were always violently eclectic, never popular. He fancied French poets but abhorred the self-conscious readings at Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland's rooms, and shied away from the spectacular new drama courses of George Pierce Baker. Harvard scholars then had a Teutonic reverence for degrees, and after a graduate year in Paris Eliot returned to Harvard and worked for a Ph.D. in philosophy, studying Sanskrit and Pali on the side. His Ph.D. thesis on F. H. Bradley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tom to T. S. | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

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