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...graduate Bowdoin prize of $150 for an original essay in either Latin or Greek of not less than three thousand words goes to Edward Anthony Robinson '32, 3G, of Saranae Lake, New York, for his essay in Latin entitled "Quomodo Plato in Legibus Rationen Inter Mores Motusque Tractaverit...
...first line of defense. "Confidential." Except for bare statistics, official Naval announcements about the maneuvers had been unprecedentedly vague and guarded. The operation would last until June 10, said the Navy, cover 5,000,000 sq. mi. in the "Pacific Triangle" between Hawaii, Puget Sound, the Aleutian Islands. Fifty thousand men would take part on 160 vessels, in 450 planes. Potent newcomers to the Fleet would be the battleship Idaho, just modernized for $14,000,000; the Ranger, first U. S. aircraft carrier built as such from the keel up; five more heavy "treaty" cruisers; destroyers Dewey and Farragut, swiftest...
Smarties' Chests. Twenty thousand Minneapolis school children marched up to Dr. Samuel Arthur Weisman a few years ago and let him measure their chests, heights, weights. Those with the broadest, flattest chests were the biggest and heaviest. Since reaching that conclusion, Dr. Weisman collected the school grades of 15,000 of the children and found that the biggest, broad-chested ones made the best grades. The narrow, pigeon-chested ones, even when they were sturdy, were the poorest students...
...reaching a certain grade. The bureau has taken in $8,000,000 more than it has spent, pays the largest printing bill of any Government bureau, trains patent lawyers, stays constantly behind in its work, resists the onslaught of its critics, continues to grant more & more patents. Seven hundred thousand patents are now in force...
Cheerfully styling themselves "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard," Thomas G. Ratcliffe, Jr. '35; W. Alden Harken '35; Joseph McG. Bottkol 3G; William B. Horton 1G.B.; C. Malcolm Watkins '34; John A. Bovey, Jr. '35; Kermit R. Kimball '35; Carl L. Billman '35; and Theodore C. Uebel 1G have hurled a gauntlet of defiance at Lousiana's Kingfish. Determined to undermine the pressure brought to bear by The Washroom Senator in his recent address supporting the Patman Bonus Bill, the Ten Thousand despatched a telegram to the President urging his veto. At a late hour last night the Harvard Host...