Word: philo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philo Sherman Bennett Prize
...clipped black mustache, is a nephew of the late great Art Collector & Railroad Tycoon Henry Edwards Huntington. His father, Archibald Davenport Wright, was an amateur painter, architect, and builder of the Southern Railroad. His brother is Willard Huntington Wright, better known as "S. S. Van Dine," author of the Philo Vance detective stories. Artist Wright loathes Writer Wright's stories. Maintaining the family independence, Father Wright never looked at anything that his sons produced...
Heading the list of talent which as been working out daily on the Business School Field are Frank Vincent, Philo Willets, and Sam Kelly, veterans of last fall's winning eleven, and the Freshman booters, Ted Robie and Bob White...
Coach Carr looks to three lettermen, Charles S. Kelley, III '36, Edward Metley, Jr. '36, and Philo F. Willetts '36, to fill the shoes of the veteran forward nucleus composed of Captain Stork, Delavane C. Close and Melvin G. Grover, which has functioned to perfection in the contests of the past three years. In the goal there will be another difficult problem created by the graduation of Jonathan S. England...
Seventy per cent of a candidate's grade depended on an intelligence test, which asked definitions of words like "complex" and posed simple problems in arithmetic and algebra. Balance of the examination, however, was an observation and memory test which would have taxed the discerning powers of a Philo Vance...