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...Harvard, where his family name is so illustrious as to be a liability, Robert Hallowell was Lampoon president (1909-10), a member of Hasty Pudding, Signet, Stylus, DKE, and a great friend of rollicking John Reed. When a group including Classmate Walter Lippmann and Herbert Croly founded the liberal New Republic in 1914, Radical John Reed encouraged Hallowell of the banking Hallowells to take the post of treasurer. Ten years later he suddenly quit, went to Paris, arranged a divorce, became an artist. At 52, Robert Hallowell died...
...highbrow Advocate, but was not elected to its board. His serious classmate Walter Lippmann made the heavy Monthly (now defunct). Rustic Stuart Chase wrote nothing but routine essays for professors. Ebullient John Reed made both the Monthly and the whimsical Lampoon. Beefy Hamilton Fish Jr. was in the literary Signet Society, partly because he was football captain. Brightest light of all was Thomas Stearns Eliot - he was taken into the two literary clubs, Stylus and Signet, was secretary of the Advocate...
...Harbor, New York, and graduated from Groson. Entering Harvard in the Class of '40, he has majored in the Classics and expects to finish his college course this year, since Rhodes scholars are supposed to have graduated. He is a resident of Eliot House and a member of the Signet Society...
Recipient of the Signet Society medal for achievement in the arts, awarded at the Society's annual dinner on Saturday, was Van Wyck Brooks...
This annual award to an alumnus of the Signet Socity who has made notable achievement in the arts was started last year when Nathaniel Choate '22 was asked to design the medal to be presented for the first time at last year's dinner. The resulting medal, two and three quarters inches in diameter, with the club membership medal design on one side and a shield bearing the name of the recipient on the other, is embossed in silver...