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...Duggan '31, R. G. Edwards '31, D. S. Forbes '31, Channing Frothingham '31, J. B. Garrison '31, M. W. Gill '31, Lawrence Grinnell Jr. '31, A. W. Hugoley '31, J. E. Lawrence '31, R. J. Leonard '31, H. P. Nichols '31, R. S. Ogden '31, Summer Putnam '31, R. L. Scott '31, M. W. Stearns '31, S. W. Swaim '31, B. H. Ticknor '31, R. L. Tower '31, P. H. Watts '31, and E. E. Whitman...
This, the first annual brain joust between Harvard and Yale tens, was the result of a $125,000 gift of Mrs. William Lowell Putnam, sister of President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard. The gift provides a prize of $5,000 worth of books each year to the winning team...
First place in the broad jump will probably go to A. E. French '29, with second and third counting for Dartmouth. B. G. Burbank '29, in the pole vault, is expected to clear the bar considerably over the high mark of Putnam of the Big Green aggregation...
...what extent the scheme of academic contests, initiated by Mrs. Putnam will foster the general enthusiasm for learning in the colleges which adopt it can be determined only through experience. As to the dangers which this plan is liable to involve such as the advent of a time "when Yale men will wade into Paradise Lost for the greater glory of Yale" or the introduction of "the evils of spectacular athletic competition into scholarship" there should be little cause for worry. The want of "a good stage manager" and the "element of personal contact" should be enough to guarantee against...
...members of the Harvard team and English Department highly appreciate your message, and heartily greet the Yale team and English Department. We rejoice that Harvard's first friendly opponents in the contest are our long-standing friends at Yale, and believe that the Putnam Memorial will advance our common interests. Our friendship has already been strengthened by Yale's generous spirit which we have felt throughout...