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Eighteen boys in the Middle West selected for outstanding ability and character from more than three hundred top-ranking high school and private school competitors in the area, have been awarded prize fellowships to enter Harvard College this fall, President James B. Conant announced here tonight. These are the highest awards given to entering Freshmen at Harvard, being renewable throughout the four years of college and carrying stipends sufficiently large, when necessary, to meet all the student's expenses. Maximum awards are $1,000 the first year and $1,200 each year there after...
Sixteen boys from high schools and private schools in the Middle Western and Southern states have been selected from among more than three hundred candidates in the area for scholarships to enter Harvard College this fall. The awards total...
...boys, who were school leaders in scholarship and class activities, were chosen from an area including Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee. Eighteen other secondary school graduates from these states were named earlier this summer as winners of Harvard College Prize Fellowships...
...Theatre is given on this page. Its 14,890 seats will occupy the area bounded by University and Sever Halls on the West and East, and by the Memorial Church and Widener Library on the North and South. The great outdoor theatre will contrast interestingly with the much smaller Meeting House and Pavilion where the Bicentennial observances were held. The platform at the North end (sketched by the late Charles A. Coolidge and completed after his death by his associates) will be architecturally an extension of the Memorial Church. It will be decorated with appropriate banners and the Harvard arms...
Starting first on the original strike, they dug shallow shafts and open cuts over an area 800 ft. by 400 ft., found gold wherever they dug. Working with a primitive "coffee grinder" mill, they began turning out $500 worth of gold a day, paid off the two prospectors within a year and up to last week had taken $80,000 in gold out of the earth. Last week the dazzling story of the Jumbo strike spread across the country on the authority of no less a mining expert than Herbert Hoover...