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...V. E. Way has won the first of these grants, the Charles Eliot Norton Fellowship in Greek Studies for the year 1929-30 on the basis of a thesis written on a subject in the field of the classics. Way gained his master's degree at Harvard in 1926, and is now pursuing work in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The David A. Wells Prize in Economics was won by John Van Sickle 21, for an essay entitled "Direct Taxation in Austria 1918-1923". Van Sickle got his bachelor's degree in 1927 at Cornell before coming...
...V. Hubbard '97, Professor of Landscape Architecture, to complete for publication a survey and analysis of city planning and zoning progress in the United States...
Twenty-one letter men are on hand this year from last season's track outfit, representing practically every event. Of these men, four were awarded letters as a result of placing in the recent I. C. 4A. meet at New York, including Vernon Munroe '31 and V. L. Hennessy '30 in the relay, C. E. Dunlap '30 in the pole vault, and F. J. Mardulier '30 in the high hurdles. The other returning letter men, listed with their events, are as follows...
...parties. The secret had leaked out−after months of official concealment−that President William T. Cosgrave of the Irish Free State has been challenging the authority of the Crown Council as at present constituted. All ordinary powers of the King-Emperor were signed over by stricken George V (TIME, Dec. 17), to this Council, which consists of the Prime Minister, Lord High Chancellor, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Duke of York, Edward of Wales and Queen Mary, who has thus far presided. Cables from Dublin revealed that the Irish Free State has been quietly refusing to deal with...
Faces were thus saved temporarily, but in London last week it was freely predicted that should George V remain invalid, an Imperial Conference will have to be called to settle the Crown Council Question beyond possibility of Irish cavil. Early in the week, several of the 22 subjects designated Knights in the delayed New Year's honors list tingled at the thought of kneeling in silk breeches to be dubbed (smacked between the shoulder blades) by the naked sword of Edward of Wales acting for George V. These ceremonies were postponed to allow the Prince to represent King George...