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Passer, a 1943 summa cum laude who received an A.M. in Economics today, spoke on what he termed "the new dollar diplomacy which uses our financial resources to promote world peace.... America, the strongest nation, must accept the major responsibility for establishing a lasting peace," he declared...
...vote of the Corporation sent the three Frederick Sheldon Prize Traveling Fellowships to David Dudley Bidwell '48 of Weston, and Lowell House, Richard Lee Ingraham '45 of Packanack Lake, New Jersey, and Richard Henry Milburn '48 of Newark, New Jersey, and Adams House. All three men were recipients of summa degrees in Engineering Sciences and Applied Physics, Mathematics, and Physics respectively...
Harian Philip Hanson '46 of Madison, Wisconsin and Kirkland House gained the Henry Russell Shaw Traveling Fellowship. Hanson earned a summa cum laude in Germanie Languages and Literatures this spring...
...honors graduates, only one, Lloyd Marcus '48, a Social Relations concentrator, received his degree summa laude. Three others, Jerome J. Newman '47, Edward D. McDougal III '46, and Uco Van Wijk '45, were graduated magna cum laude in the highest group...
...Henry Morris Russell, 69, grey, wispy-haired professor of astronomy. One of the world's leaders in his field, he developed a way of measuring movement of stars by photography, established giant and dwarf star groups, was one of two Princeton men to win doctorates in physics summa cum laude. Professor Russell once predicted that, in about a billion years, the earth's atmospheric oxygen will be used up, and in a few billion more "the universe will be thoroughly uninteresting...