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Howard Franklin Schomer '37, of Oak Park, Illinois, has been awarded the History and Literature Prize given the Junior who is considered to be the most promising student among his classmates in this field. He will be given $50 to be spent on books...
...their campus by the shores of Lake Waban, the students of Wellesley (Mass.) College last week celebrated ''Tree Day." Chosen as Wellesley's prettiest senior, Marion Chapman, 22, daughter of a Portland, Me. attorney, let down her golden hair, supervised the planting of a golden oak near Pendleton Hall...
Cork. The U. S. imports virtually all its cork, though the cork oak thrives in California, where it grows about twice as fast as it does around the Mediterranean. What has deterred Californians from boosting cork is the fact that the bark is not stripped from the cork oak for commercial purposes until the tree is 35 years old. San Francisco's Emory R. Smith said last week that, when he was faculty head of Stanford University's Agricultural Research School, he tried to persuade Founder Leland Stanford to plant 1,000 acres of his grant to cork...
...Grand Rapids furniture began. The Eastern market was opened to Grand Rapids when a suite (a "suit" not a "sweet," in the furniture business) by Berkey won a gold medal at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876. After that, through the American Victorian, Eastlake, Mission and the Golden Oak periods, Berkey and Gay and the other firms which grew up around it built up Grand Rapids as a home of honest craftsmanship, if not of inspired design...
Computations of the comet's orbit were made by Fred L. Whipple, instructor in Astronomy and Leland E. Cunningham on the basis of photographs taken at the Cambridge and Oak Ridge stations...