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Five years ago the U. S. lawyer and one-time Interstate Commerce Commissioner, James S. Harlan, saw a camel race in the Sahara and thought it was great sport. Why not a Grand Prix of the Sahara? he asked his friends in Africa, and with their encouragement picked out a course, put up prizes: 2,500 francs to the winner and some gold jewelry (no tribesman is much interested in money by itself); second prize, 1,500 francs and silver jewelry; third prize 600 francs and a certificate. During his foreign tour, Mr. Harlan died, and since on his deathbed...
...Haffner; Nelson Robinson, Jr., Professor of Architecture, will be absent from the School during the second half year. His place will be taken by Andre Leconte, architect diplome par le Gouvernement Francais, and winner of the Grand Prix de Rome in 1926. M. Leconte, generally regarded as being one of the foremost European authorities on architecture, was recently asked by the Architectural Record to make detailed scale drawings of the mosaics at Constantinople, which are now on display at Robinson Hall...
...Prince of Wales: junior handicap division of the Prix du Casino golf tournament at Le Touquet, France, with a gross of 82-83, and a net (handicap...
June 29-Grand Prix de Paris races; at Longchamp, France...
...afraid all through that one of the Yale boys would also work from that, but none of them did." Well might Winner Reichardt have feared the Yale threat, for in the past four years two Yale men from the recently enlarged art school at New Haven have won the Prix de Rome for architecture. Schools with the greatest number of fellowship winners are: 1) Columbia; 2) Pennsylvania; 3) M. I. T. and Yale...