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...prizes awarded to graduates were divided among four different departments of the graduate school. First prizes of $200 each were awarded to Henry Siggins Leonard 2G, of Newton, for his essay on "Plato's Theory of Logical Division" and to Chester Linn Shaver 1G, of Somerset, Pennsylvania, for an essay named "The Moral Idealism of Aeschylus." "Hunting Oil with Dynamite," by Lewis Don Leet 2G, of Cambridge, and "Aspects of the Control of Animal Conduct," by Theodore James Blanchard Stier 4G, both brought second prize awards of $100 to their authors...
News of the golf hawk's danger came to grey, wrinkled Clement Lawrence Shaver of West Virginia. Mr. Shaver had just been superseded as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee after four thankless years in that office (see p. 7). His mind was free, his troubles over. He felt, no matter what Mrs. Shaver might say about Democratic iniquities, at peace with his fellow creatures. He sent a telegram to the directors of the Wildwood Club, saying: "Fortunate indeed is the golf course which can claim the honor of a great bird that can outbid the game in interest...
...unhesitatingly go on record as declaring that he will. Nor do I, in the language of Secretary Work, Hoover's manager, even qualify 'unless the party makes some mistakes.' . . . Smith will win even against the opposition of such brainy and attractive women as Mrs. Clem Shaver...
Will the Republicans go Wet jour years hence? "Certainly not! Their party will be the refuge of the irreconcilable 'drys'; perhaps even Mrs. Clem Shaver...
...first evening had the excitement of novelty. Governor Smith laughed when he heard Chairman Clem Shaver whacking for order with his gavel in Houston. "Maybe we had better lend the Chairman one of the pile-drivers on the new State office building," said Listener Smith...