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Edward Augustus Ackerman '34, of Spokane, Wash, has been awarded the Henry Russell Shaw Travelling Fellowship, traditionally given to the first scholar of the Senior Class. Ackerman entered from Coeur d'Alene High School, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. He will receive the degree summa cum laude in geology. He had a straight A record throughout college. He has held the Jacob Wendell Scholarship and the Palfrey Exhibition. He was on the University Fencing Team and has taken part in debating. The fellowship will enable him to travel abroad for a year...
Stanton Whitney, Jr. 34, of Red Bank, N. J., has been awarded the Lionel de Jersey Studentship at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, England. The studentship, established by the Associated Harvard Clubs, gives a year of study at Cam- bridge, The scholar lives in the room which John Harvard is supposed to have occupied. Whitney prepared at Groton, He has been on the University Football Team, and the University Wresting Team; has been captain of the University Rugby Team, holder of a John Harvard Scholarship, vice-president of his Junior Class and a member of the Permanent Class Committee. His field...
Princeton's Dodds. As a scholar President Dodds is a front-rank authority on municipal government, plebiscites and elections. He was 27 when War came. Turned clown by the Army for poor eyesight, he enlisted in the U. S. Food Administration, served as executive secretary for Pennsylvania. In 1920 he began 13 work-packed years with the National Municipal League. In 1922 the League's President Charles Evans Hughes, then U. S. Secretary of State, sent him to straighten out Nicaragua's messy election system. The Dodds Law which he whipped together in a few months still...
Oris Edward Sandusky, of Cambridge, Mass., to be BAssistant Director of the Biological Laboratories 1934-35. 1924-26 Rhodes Scholar at Oxford; A.B. Univ. of Washington, 1924, A.M. 1924; A.M. Harvard 1928; 1931-33 graduate work at Harvard; 1933-34 General assistant in the Department of Physiology at Harvard...
...Forster-Harcourt, Brace ($3). Full-length biography of a great scholar-humanist, by the author of A Passage to India...