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...Humberd is the coroner of Nodaway County in northwest Missouri and the only doctor in the village of Barnard, where he was born. In Barnard lived a minor politician who weighed 427 lb. when he died last year, and a 19-year-old boy who was 7 ft. tall when he went to a CCC camp last season. Those divergents from the norms of humanity started Dr. Humberd, 40, a curly-headed bookworm, on a study of gigantism. He has hats, shoes, rings and other souvenirs of most of the circus giants...
President for the next year will be Howard R. Patch, Jr. '38, Henry H. Urrows '38 has been elected secretary, and treasurer for the coming fiscal year will be Irving H. Chase '39. The newly-elected members of the executive committee are John Barnard Jr. '39, Samuel L. M. Cole '39, John J. Garlick '38, and Alphonso Ossorio...
...Author. In 1925 exiled Princess Nina Andronikova Toumanova arrived in the U. S. with $29, no English. Now she is Lecturer in French at Barnard College, has just taken her Ph.D. at Columbia University, is a naturalized U. S. citizen. It took a revolution to arouse her interest in Chekhov. As a refugee in Paris she studied at the University, discovered Maupassant, through him, Chekhov. In the U. S. she learned English by teaching French, decided to perfect it by taking a Ph.D. Her English dissertation she rewrote four times, parts of it 50 times. Nothing daunted, she now plans...
Awarded. To Dean Virginia C. Gildersleeve of Barnard College; the American Woman's Association's 1936 Award for Eminent Achievement; in Manhattan...
Substitutes: Kirkland--Keene, Malcolm, Forbes, Jordan, Barnard, Salant, Lubin, Jones, Stubbs. Winthrop--Brookings, Young, Higgs, Lewisohn, Gilliand, Pedrick, Bergstein...