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...Garrett Birkhoff '32, a Junior Fellow of Harvard College, was appointed as the graduate member of the Lowell House committee, at a meeting of that committee last night. Nominations were also made for Sophomore and Junior members. The Sophomores are: Wilton S. Burton, Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., and Theodore H. Sheafe. Additions to this list may be made by a petition signed by at least 15 members of the class of 1936. The Juniors nominated are: James W. Tower, Arthur Willis, Jr., and Charles S. Houston. Additions may be made by a petition signed by 25 or more Juniors...
...Junior Fellows, Garrett Birkhoff '32 and Frederick M. Watkins '30 are members of Lowell House, Thomas S. Chambers resides in Eliot House, John C. Miller '30 in Leverett House, and Burrhus F. Skinner in Winthrop House...
George David Birkhoff: First in our land among masters of mathematics, that great tool of science, greater still in the realm of pure imagination...
Other notables receiving degrees were Lewis William Douglas, director of the federal budget; Wilbur Lucius Cross, Governor of Connecticut; Harry Emerson Fosdick, pastor of Riverside Church, New York City; Louis Edward Kirstein, Boston philanthropist; Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard Observatory; George David Birkhoff '05, Perkins Professor of Mathematics; Philip Hale, dramatic critic of the Boston Herald; Francis Welles Hunnewell '02, secretary to the Harvard Corporation; Joseph Rochomont Hamlen, president of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin...
Fourteen prominent members of the Faculty appearing as contributors are: J. H. Beale '82, G. D. Birkhoff '05, W. B. Cannon '96, T. N. Carver, hon., Sheldon Cheney Gr. '13, E. F. Gay '08, A. B. Hart '80, W. E. Hocking '01, A. Lawrence Lowell '77, K. B. Murdock '16, Roscoe Pound LL.D. '20, the late J. H. Ropes '89, F. W. Taussig '79, A. N. Whitehead...