Word: wisconsin
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Murray Reed Benedict 1G of Brookings, S. D. is th recipient of the Ricardo Prize for 1929-1930, it was announced yesterday at University Hall. Benedict received his S.B. degree from Wisconsin in 1916. This prize is awarded to the winner of an examination open only to Seniors and graduate students. The competition is based upon an essay written in the examination room on a topic in economics and political science chosen by the candidate from a list not previously announced. The winner becomes the incumbent of the scholarship for the coming year and is enabled to carry...
...Confirmed: Horace Paul Bestor of St. Louis as a member of the Federal Farm Loan Board; onetime Senator Irwine Luther Lenroot of Wisconsin as a judge in the Court of Customs & Patent Appeals...
...trousers. Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt did not seem to mind when her Chicatie came in last. She still felt Chicatie was a nice horse. Among governors were Kentucky's Sampson, Tennessee's Horton, Indiana's Leslie, New Hampshire's Tobey, Pennsylvania's Fisher, Wisconsin's Kohler. Vice President Curtis who saw the Preakness with Mrs. Gann stayed away, but Charles Curtis Jr. went. From Chicago, came Joseph Medill Patterson and from Manhattan John J. Raskob. Matt Winn, director of Churchill Downs, was as excited as anybody although he has managed the Kentucky Derby...
...Chicago, one Henry Redfeldt wooed for six years a Wisconsin maiden he had never seen, sent her $6,000. Last week he sued his landlady, said she had devised the courtship, invented the maiden, stolen the funds, written the answers to his letters...
...Swarthmore honors plan, the Harvard tutorial system and the Wisconsin Experimental College all impress us as admirable reforms tending to informalize and intensify college training. They show a growing tendency to consider each student as an individual, to adapt the course of study to his needs and interests, to stimulate his curiosity, and to develop his initiative. However, the two former plans are narrowly limited in their application. The real young barbarians are seldom honor students or sons of Harvard. They are "C" students in the state universities and newer colleges. Not until these institutions follow the example of Wisconsin...