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George F. Schlesinger, chief engineer and managing director of the National Paving Brick Manufacturers Association, the Arthur M. Wellington prize; for evaluating the practical utility of highway transport surveys...
...worst enemy. His imagination pictures terrors which become just as real as actual obstacles in the course of time. Habit is never so strong that the psychoanalyst cannot overcome it. The Duke of Wellington said 'habit was ten times as strong as nature' but an analysist only needs a little more time to untangle personalities schooled and cemented in the wrong outlook...
...William Ladd '34, W. H. Lehr '34, C. A. McCarthy, Jr. '32, E. E. Post '33, Samuel Powel, Jr. '32, Richard Stackpole '34, T. W. Stedman, Jr. '33, R. L. Stites '34, F. J. Swayze, II '33, LeG. L. Thurber '34, R. H. Watson, Jr. '32, W. S. Wellington '34, Taggart Whipple '34, F. H. White '33, N. T. Winthrop...
...history was too much for him; in 1923 he dropped everything else to scratch with both hands. Of a proper historian he says: "He must reconstruct the past, set old breezes stirring once again, and-most elusive miracle of all-bring the dead back to life." After reading Wellington you will admit that Guedalla knows his business, has done his duty. Almost painfully witty in conversation, in writing he-is refreshingly so. Other books: The Second Empire, Masters & Men, Fathers of the Revolution, Palmerston, Bonnet & Shawl...
...Wellington is the December choice of the Literary Guild...