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...Benjamin Alexander, Edmund Callis Berkeley, Spencer Brown, Lyman Henry Butterfield. Frank McMinn Chambers, Joseph Leo Doop, Jerome David Frank, Ray Irvine Hardin. Albert Gailord Hart, 2d., Leo Tolstoi Hurwitz, Franklin Hasse Kissner. Walter Frederick Koetzle, Edward VanPraag Lee, Benjamin Butler McKeever, Jr., Reginald Henry Phelps, Otto Eugene Schoen-Rene, George Winslow Simpkins, John Walker, 3d., Frederick Mundell Watkins, John Frank Wood...
...Sephardic Jewry declined. Some of the Spanish Jews migrated to the Netherlands. Spinoza was a Sephardic Jew. A Lisbon-born Sephardi who lived in Amsterdam was Manasseh ben Israel, who persuaded Cromwell to allow the Jews to return to England (they were expelled in 1290). That return allowed Benjamin Disraeli, a Sephardi, to become Prime Minister of England and Sir Philip Sassoon, also a Sephardi, to become the rich crony of the present Prince of Wales. (England's potent Isaacs, Samuel and Rothschild families are Jews of German origin...
Eminent U. S. Sephardim include the late Emma Lazarus (poetess), Dr. Solomon Solis Cohen (physician, teacher), Ernest Clifford Peixotto (artist, writer), Jessica Blanche Peixotto (his sister, social economist), Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (jurist...
...colleges and universities competed in the doubles. Berkeley Bell, of the University of Texas, was winner of the Intercollegiate Singles Championship, by defeating in the final round Gregory Mangin, of Georgetown University, 2-6, 3-6, 6-4, 6-2, 6-2. The Intercollegiate Doubles Championship was won by Benjamin Gorchakoff and Arthur Kussman, of Occidental College, who defeated Emmet Pare and Mangin, of Georgetown, 5-7, 6-1, 6-4, 6-4 in the final round...
Vernon Munroe Jr. '31, of New York, Crimson track star, last night was elected president of the Student Council at the first meeting of the new board. The fifteen members of the Council, elected last week by popular vote of the student body, also chose Benjamin Holt Ticknor II '31, Captain-elect of the 1930 football team, as vice-president, Richard Norman Clark Jr. '32, of Atlanta, Georgia, as secretary, and Henry Chalfant Jr. '31, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as treasurer...