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Paul Robeson is distinctly a Northern Negro. The youngest son of a school-teaching mother and a Methodist minister who had worked his way through Lincoln University, he was educated first in the public schools of Princeton, N. J. His school record won him a scholarship at nearby Rutgers College (New Brunswick, N. J.). At Rutgers an average of over 90% in all his studies won him a Phi Beta Kappa key in his junior year. He was considered Rutgers' best debater. He won his R in four sports (football, baseball, basketball, track). The late Walter Camp called...
...Austin Scholarships in Architecture have been received by George Katsutoshi Nakashima 1 S.A., Ross Lloyd Snedaker 3 S. A., Russell Train Smith 3 S.A., and T. Gerald Kronick 2 S. A. Harold Douglass Hill 3 S.A. has been awarded a Joseph Evelith Scholarship, and Gordon Titus Rideout is the holder of a Frederick E. Parlin award...
catalogue of the Harvard Law School. Mr. Pugsley has already made several other grants to the Law School, three of which are available to students from North, South, and Central America respectively, for study in international law. Another, known as the Pugsley Scholarship, was established in 1920 for graduate study in international law, preference to be given students from foreign countries
Victor Mathews Harding, Jr. '31, of Hubbard Woods, Illinois, has been awarded the Richard Perking Parker Scholarship, it was announced yesterday at University Hall. This prize which was established in 1923 by members of the Class of 1922 in honor of Richard Perking Parker '22 of Salem, is awarded annually to "a Junior of high character and ability who shall have demonstrated his qualifications both by intellectual achievement and by participation in the student activities of the College...
Birthday. Robert Bridges, poet laureate of England; in London. Age: 85. To celebrate, he published a 4,000-line, four-part poem entitled The Testament of Beauty, his first large work in 39 years. Of it, the London Times said: ". . . The outpouring of the accumulated wisdom, experience, scholarship and poetic craftsmanship of one of the richest and mellowest spirits of our time...