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Sirs : Since the time approaches to select TIME's Man of the Year, why not also select a Lady of the Year? The fair sex can supply some worth-while candidates for this honor each year so why not start this for 1936? For this year I nominate Mrs. Wallis Simpson as Lady of the Year...
...Before a select gathering of 75 scientists at the Harvard Observatory Friday afternoon. Dr. Fred L. Whipple, instructor in Astronomy, advanced a startlingly new explanation of the origin of cosmic static...
Ward's will sell a good human skeleton for $105. The company sends out catalogs to 20,000 select institutional and personal customers. Current lists show that a specimen board of 50 insect pests can be had for $12, a model of a Neanderthal skull or $2.50, a series of models illustrating seven stages in human embryology for $75, an ichthyosaurus paddle for $15, a nearly complete ichthyosaurus skeleton for $300. A 300,000,000-year-old trilobite may cost as little as 50?, a collection of small Silurian fossils 65?. Princeton University recently ordered a cat skeleton, Columbia...
Sixty-four Grosz drawings and a hand-colored lithograph were presented to a very select public by svelte Publisher Caresse Crosby's Black Sun Press in an edition of 280 numbered copies, printed on hand-moulded paper, bound in a loose box, introduced by a little essay by myopic Novelist John Dos Passos, and priced at $50. Among the best drawings...
...Burr Scholarship was established in 1914 in memory of Francis H. Burr '09 by his friends, for award each year to a Senior who "combines as nearly as possible Burr's remarkable qualities of character, leadership, scholarship, and athletic ability." The Dean and the chairman of the Athletic Committee select the winner, who receives the gift in his fourth year, together with a copy of the memorial life of Burr...