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...Anna Jump Cannon .................................astronomy...
...Anna Botsford Comstock ........................natural history...
...that famous song is an old Italian tune. Payne, who wrote the lyric, heard a peasant girl in Italy singing a lovely snatch of song. He wrote down the notes, and afterward adapted his verses to it. Curiously, when Donizetti wanted a typical English melody for his opera Anna Bolena, he chose Home, Sweet Home, not knowing that it was not English in origin, but as Italian as his own compositions...
...Anna Gluzman, 25, Russian " shooting judge ": "I am thus described by American newspapers: 'A cigarette held firmly between tight lips, fire of enthusiasm in brown eyes, slim, short, brown wavy bobbed hair parted on the side like a man's, jaw stern. Rough high boots, black skirt, workman's blouse, old brown sweater, only ornament a Communist badge...
...George H. Emerson scholarship and the Anna C. Ames scholarship at the Bussey Institution, the graduate school of applied biology, have been awarded for 1923-24 respectively to Lawrence Has-brouck Snyder of New Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y., and Horace Wenger Feldman of South Bend, Ind., who are now both first-year students at the Institution. Snyder graduated from Rutgers College in 1922 and Feldman from Purdue University...