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...following scholarships and aids for 1929-1930 have been awarded: The Harvard Club of France scholarship of J. H. Neukirch 1G; the Swift scholarship to S. H. Stackpole '33; two Henry D, and Jonathan M. Parmenter scholarships to R. A. Peel '31 and to J. L. Ware '30; the Harvard Club of Connection scholarship to Arthur Richmond '33; the Bowditch fund to K. C. Sanders '30; a Special University Scholarship to W. M. Whitehill Jr. 4G, and the Clifford M. Holland Memorial Aid of the Engineering School to J. B. Slade...
...Caldbeck churchyard the sentimental sportsmen, primed for song, were shocked to find that persons unknown had covered the historic tombstone of John Peel with sheet iron, obliterating his name, and the fox, hounds and horn graven thereon...
...Well, frankly," said Vicar Hornsby, "I must say I do not regard John Peel as a hero, and I deplore his exaggerated and legendary reputation as a hunter. I ask you whether slaughtering thousands of innocent foxes is sufficient reason for exalting a man when nothing else can be put to his credit...
...next morning's meet of the Caldbeck hounds the velvet-capped huntsman of the pack called his hounds, and woke the echoes and stirred the Vicar's sleep with the original battered copper horn of John Peel himself...
...Gray, not "gay" was John Peel's coat. A simple fellside hunter, he never wore "pink...