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Debating the subject: "Resolved, that radio is lowering the cultural standards in America," the negative team won a unanimous decision last night, in a mixed meeting of Harvard and Radcliffe Freshmen. In addition to the two judges, Miss Priscilla Gough and the Reverend Mr. Newton C. Fetter, a decision was taken of the audience, to make up the third vote. J. M. Swigert '30, coach of the University debating squad, acted as chairman of the evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RADIO UPHELD BY DECISION IN RADCLIFFE VS. 1935 DEBATE | 4/14/1932 | See Source »

...Bates 1G, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, received the Priscilla Clark Hodges Scholarship, while the Clifford M. Holland Memorial Aid was awarded to J. J. Guiahino '35. Harvard Law School Association Scholarships were received by the following first year Law School students: J. P. Blaisdell, of Claremont, California; E. A. Haight, of Rockford, Illinois; J. F. Harding, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; R. A. McLaughlin, of West Roxbury; J. M. Murtagh, of New York City; C. F. Steele, of Buffalo, New York; P. W. Steer, of Parkersburg, West Virginia; and Nolan Thorpe, of Brooklyn, New York...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Award Of 38 Scholarships And David A. Wells Prize Announced | 3/14/1932 | See Source »

...worldwide stir that these remarks created was a three-day wonder. Upon looking up Professor Shaw, the impressionable Press found that he was a Professor of Philosophy and 60 years old. Not only that, he was a ninth lineal descendant of John & Priscilla Alden, author of a learned book, The Road to Culture * and repeatedly voted by students the most popular man of the N. Y. U. faculty. The only strange thing found in his history was his walking 15 years ago from Philadelphia to Manhattan, 90 mi. in 23 hr. 40 min. Editors telephoned, telegraphed, cabled and radioed last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Whistling Morons | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

Died. General Albert Taylor Goodwyn, 88, onetime (1928-29) Commander-in-Chief of the United Confederate Veterans, husband of U. S. President John Tyler's granddaughter Priscilla Cooper Tyler, grandnephew of William Wyatt Bibb, first Governor of Alabama; in Birmingham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport, Jul. 13, 1931 | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

...Baker 3rd; Grenville Baker. Mrs. Loew also has four children: Mrs. Edwin Main Post (who has one child, William); Mrs. Edward Livingston Burrill Jr.; Mrs. Richard Trimble; Florence Loew. Mrs. Howard Bligh St. George has three children: Evelyn Bligh St. George: George Baker St. George (who has a daughter, Priscilla); Robert Cecil St. George (who has a son, Robert). A third son, Howard Bligh St. George was killed at Ypres while leading a British cavalry charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Last Titan | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

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