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...Debating Council added another win to its record yesterday afternoon by defeating a Boston University team. Richard W. Hulbert '51 and William C. Becker '51 successfully defended the negative side of the topic: "Federal Aid to Education...
Died. Russell W. Porter, 77, famed optics expert and amateur astronomer, longtime (since 1928) art associate for the 200-inch Mt. Palomar telescope; of a heart attack; in Pasadena, Calif. A one-time explorer, Porter went with Peary on two polar expeditions, got interested in astronomy while marooned for two years in the Arctic. At the Mt. Palomar project, Porter's three-dimensional scale drawings were a vital factor in the design and construction of the big telescope...
...That Rankled. His boyhood chance for traveling with the home-town upper-upper crust was wiped out by a financial panic. "I can remember distinctly how I felt when we didn't have any more money [after the crash of 1907]. I could feel myself becoming what [Anthropologist W. L.] Warner calls 'mobilized downward.' Of course, I had read Horatio Alger and I was ready to face this change in circumstance in a sportsmanlike manner." In Point of No Return it is Anthropologist Malcolm Bryant who explains such niceties of the scientific vocabulary to Charley Gray...
Appointment of Don W. Fawcett '38, associate in Anatomy at the Medical School, as a "Scholar in Medical Science" by the John and Mary R. Markle Foundation was announced last night...
...August, men's clothes; Boylston Camera Exchange; J. F. Brine, sporting goods; W. H. Brine, sporting goods; Ada Bullock's Restaurant; Diane Christine, women's clothing; Economy Watch Co., watch repairing; Eddy's Cleansers; Stephen Farrell Cravat Co.; Joe Foster Co., shoes; General Appliance Co.; Green's Luggage Shop; Johnson Printing Co., stationery; Kay's Newport, women's clothing; Kupersmith, florist; Samuel Narcus, stationery; Paul's Shoes; Penn the Florist; C. C. Poters, general appliances; Renmore Inc., women's clothing; Richard Clothes; University Typewriter Exchange; Yoland