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...child, Diosdado tended the big, black water buffaloes that are the Philippine beasts of burden, stole out at night to catch frogs in the rice fields for food, and did well enough in the village school to be named class valedictorian. He would have been too ashamed of his clothes to appear, if a generous neighbor had not supplied him with a white shirt and a pair of canvas shoes...
Taylor halls from Crookston's Central High School, where he won all-state football honors, captained four sports, and graduated as valedictorian of his class. A dean's list chemistry student at the College, he has been nominated for election to the all-Ivy scholastic team...
...patrician Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., the class of 1914 had no trouble picking the Man Most Likely to Succeed. He was bright, moonfaced James Phinney Baxter III, pride of a leading Maine family.* Armed with summa and Phi Beta Kappa key. Valedictorian Baxter headed for Wall Street riches. A brush with TB soon turned him to teaching; but the class prophecy still came true. At 44, Historian Baxter became the youngest of Williams' ten presidents. This month, when he retired at 68, Phinney Baxter was the dean of topflight New England college presidents, and one of the most...
Princeton's Valedictorian Frederic Kreisler, 21, a summa cum laude major in medieval history with a four-year average of A+, is a nephew of Violinist Fritz Kreisler, and himself an accomplished pianist. One professor calls him "intellectually and personally the most outstanding boy I ever met at Princeton." Fluent in French and German, he was top man at Pelham (N.Y.) Memorial High School, top freshman at Princeton, made Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year and won a Carnegie grant for summer research at the University of Vienna on his thesis. "The Coronation of Charlemagne" (grade: A+). Known...
...months, Hamilton Holmes, 19, and Charlayne Hunter, 18, had tried to get into the university. They graduated together from Atlanta's Turner High School, where Valedictorian Holmes was first in the class and Charlayne third. The university rejected them on a variety of pretexts, but was careful never to mention the color of their skins. Holmes went to Atlanta's Morehouse (Negro) College, where he is a B+ student and star halfback. Charlayne studied journalism at Detroit's Wayne State University. Last fall, after they took their hopes for entering Georgia to court, Judge Bootle ordered them...