Word: student
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Medical Centre (Student Dormitory...
Yellow-garmented Buddhist priests chanted prayers, thumbed beads, whirred carven prayer wheels. They and all Siam, especially Royal Bangkok, mourned the death of a young medical interne at the American Mission Hospital. No ordinary student he, but a superlatively intelligent one, for he came from a superlatively intelligent house and was none other than Somdet Chao Fa (Prince) Mahidol Adulyadej, brother of His Majesty the King of Siam, heir presumptive to the throne of Siam, Harvard graduate, onetime M. I. T. student...
...Lipshutz categorized as follows: "The first group was the social group. Nice-young-men-from-good-families, who made up the more decorative part of the student body. . . . Group number two, quite as definite, was the wicked group- an off-colour mixture of boys from all races and all families, who sat in the rear of the rooms and cried their vices to each other . . . were still young enough to regard a prostitute as an adventure. . . . The third group was the group of serious students who were not social about it . . . went in for higher mathematics, and for chess...
...Careless Age (First National). Masked by the fatuous title-on the stage Diversion, a play by John Van Druten-is a compact and legitimately dramatic study of adolescent love. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. acts a young medical student, ambitious son of a London doctor, who on a holiday meets an experienced and beautiful woman of light fancy. Back in London she tires of her caprice, and his infatuation increases in direct ratio to her boredom until one night when he finds her with one of her other friends he goes temporarily crazy and strangles her. The irony of this denouement...
...Charles Joseph Bonaparte Scholarship is given annually by Mrs. Ellen C. Bonaparte. The preference in choosing the student to whom the award is to be made is given to students who have demonstrated an interest in the study of American government, and who give promise of helping in after life to promote higher standards in government and citizenship. The scholarship is awarded at the end of the Junior year to that member of the class concentrating in the department of Government who without regard to financial need, has the highest academic standing in that subject...