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Each year since 1922 Princeton has awarded its No. 1 undergraduate honor, the Moses Taylor Pyne Prize, to "that member of the senior class who . . . has most clearly manifested . . . excellent scholarship, manly qualities and effective support of the best interests of Princeton University...
...trustee. He is descended from Princeton's first president, Jonathan Dickinson. His father, Rev. John Thomas Duffield, taught there for 56 years. His brother, Henry Green Duffield, was treasurer from 1901 to 1930. Than Ed Duffield no man appreciates more the remarkable group of trustees-including Moses Taylor Pyne, Bayard Henry, Charles Scribner, Cyrus McCormick, Melancthon W. Jacobus, Edward Sheldon, Henry B. Thompson-who built up the modern Princeton. None is more devoted than he to their belief that the genius of Princeton and its distinction lie and should remain in the undergraduate college rather than in the ramifications...
...Phoebe Apperson Hearst, mother of Publisher William Randolph Hearst, gave $201,000 to establish the National Cathedral School for Girls. Givers of $100,000 or more include Andrew William Mellon, his brother Richard, the late Ambassador to France Henry White, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, the late Percy R. Pyne. Of $50,000 or more: Henry and Edsel Ford, the late Samuel Mather of Cleveland and his half-brother William, John Hays Hammond, Mrs. Gibson Fahnestock, the late William Amory Gardiner...
...Willoughby Craig) and Socialites like Mrs. Walter A. Burke, Mrs. Charles Gary Rumsey. By the time the Museum opened last week, several non-Hibernian names often connected with Culture in New York had been added to the list of sponsors and patrons-Otto Hermann Kahn, William Ziegler, Percy Rivington Pyne Jr., Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock Sr. and Jr., Publisher Condé Nast's daughter Natica...
...lost a charming friend who could not be replaced. The range of his friendships was reflected in the long list of honorary pallbearers, including William ("Wild Bill") Donovan and Cornelius Vanderbilt Sr., Joseph Leiter and Efrem Zimbalist, Will Rogers and Clarence Mackay, Albert Lasker and Percy Rivington Pyne...