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McMahan, the holder of the first Shaw Fellowship, is first marshal of the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, and received his degree this morning summa cum laude in Philosophy. He prepared at Harter-Stanford Township High School. Levin, a graduate of West High School, is also a member of Phi Beta Kappa and received his degree summa cum laude in English. As a Sophomore, Levin was the winner of the first Bowdoin prize, and this year of the George B. Sohier Prize for the best honors thesis in English...
Born in Somerville, Mass. 60 years ago (Secretary Woodin called him "a real true American") Dr. Sprague "loafed egregiously" (his phrase) during his first two years at Harvard, then specialized in political science and was graduated in 1894 summa cum laude. He traveled in Europe, taught economics at the Imperial University at Tokyo, became in 1908 an original faculty member of the Harvard Business School. His extemporaneous lectures on finance and banking were so good that at least one pupil reproduced them and sold them at a profit to outside businessmen. Abnormally nearsighted, Professor Sprague could not identify even...
Harvardmen were unimpressed. New college tutorial plans and reading periods (before examinations) have cut into the crammer's trade. And Harvard's most famed crammery died with William Whiting ("Widow") Nolen in 1923. Graduated from Harvard in 1884 (summa cum laude), "Widow" Nolen left to Harvard his fine collection of Lincolniana, as well as $36,000 to a Miss Beseley of Brattle Street. Harvard's Nolen, like Yale's Samuel B. ("Rosie") Rosenbaum and Princeton's John Hun, represented the highest type of crammer, but of them all it might have been written...
...designated by the Corporation: Garrett Birkhoff '32 of Cambridge, John Chester Miller '30 of Tacoma, Washington, Willard Van Orman Quine, Oberlin '30, of Akron, Ohio, Burrhus Frederic Skinner, Hamilton '26, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Frederick Mundell Watkins '30, of Providence, Rhode Island. The three men from Harvard were graduated summa cum laude...
...happen. Most Harvardmen knew that Captain Wood, quarterback. Phi Beta Kappa, student council president, first marshal of the Class of 1932, was plugging away at biochemistry, studying for medical school, working a good part of his time in the Harvard Fatigue Laboratory. He wrote a thesis which won him summa cum laude honors at graduation and which, when published in Germany, was called one of the most brilliant pieces of original research ever done in Harvard's biochemistry department. Not until last week was it generally known what Student Wood was getting at. In studying footballers' blood counts...