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Sturtevant Burr, winner of the Saltonstall Prize, prepared at Brookline High School. He was a member of the Cross Country Team while in college, and graduated with the degree A.B. Magna cum Laude in English last June. The prize of $260, established in 1926 by the friends of Endicott Peabody Saltonstall. A. B. '94, LL.B '97, is "to be awarded by the Deans of Harvard College and the Harvard Law School to that Senior in Harvard College proposing to enter the Harvard Law School who shall be considered to be best fitted, by intellect, character, and physique, to be influenced...
This is, on the whole, quite a serviceable theory, but it omits the rather vital fact that Magna Charta was signed in 1215. It is perhaps not fair to the English to accuse them of such blindness. But for them the man and the charter do seem anomalous companions...
Dean Bender's home address is Goshen, Indiana. After graduating from the College with the Class of 1927, Magna Cum Laude in History, he became a student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, where he received his A.M. in 1930. He is an assistant in History 5a and 5b, and was this year a Freshman proctor in Smith Halls. He will take up his new duties in the fall as adviser to the Class of 1935, assisting Delmar Leighton '17, whose appointment as Dean of Freshmen was announced earlier in the present academic year...
...class makes Phi Beta Kappa in November 32 Seniors and eight Juniors are chosen by the Junior Fight of the proceeding year now the only undergraduate members of the fraternity. In June 25 more Seniors are elected from the men who have been recommended by the Faculty for degrees magna or summa cum laude Even with the increase in membership it is impossible to bring into the chapter all the men who receive a magna From this it is evident that the scholastic standard of the Harvard Chapter has not been Towered by the larger number of members rather there...
...College: Col. Albert Thompson Perkins, vice president of City Utilities Co., St. Louis bus owners, onetime president of the Associated Harvard Clubs of the U. S., holder of the Distinguished Service Medal and Britain's Order of St. Michael & St. George. In 1887 Col. Perkins was graduated by Harvard, magna cum laude. He started then with the Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad, became a leading force in St. Louis railroading. He was an adviser to many cities on their terminal systems. He brought the United Railways (St. Louis street cars) through long years of wavery receivership into reorganization as the Public...