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...Charles Holt Taylor, 3G, of Maplewood, N. J., a Bayard Cutting Fellowship; Paul Richard Harmel 1G, of Cleveland, Ohio, and Charles Hartshorne 3G, of Phoenixville, Pa., Rogers Fellowships; Jay W. Jacobs of Carthage, Mo., an Edward R. Bacon Art Scholarship; Howard Kennedy Beale 3G, of Chicago, III., a John Thornton Kirkland Fellowship; and James Phinney Baxter 3d, 2G, of Belmont, and Harold Van Vechten Fay 3G, of Auburn, N. Y., honorary, John Harvard Fellowships...
...following men were elected to membership in the Sodality; Dexter Selden Paine '25 of Brookline; Lee Osher Combs '26 of Long Beach, California; Donald Coats Gates '26 of New York City; Robert Thornton Smith of Saco, Maine; Benjamin Brewster 2ES, of Dedham; John Warren Knedler Jr. '24 of Moscow, Pennsylvania; David Waller Bakeless '26 of Bloomer, Pennsylvania; and Randolph Piper, '27 of Lexington...
...Story. Ostensibly the account of one man's life, this is in reality a keen, sweeping arraignment of the destructive forces of "Waste" which the author visions as imperilling the America of today. His protagonist, Jarvis Thornton, ultimately works out a philosophy which one dimly feels to be the author's own panacea?if, indeed, one can be found?for the danger...
...college days Thornton first perceives these undermining forces at work; sees his classmates abandoning their first high, nebulous hopes of achievement, for some concrete form of business which will assure them wealth. And shortly after college, he is himself drawn into the menacing vortex, by a tragically mistaken marriage...
...solution Thornton finds for his disillusionment is at best a philosophy of compromise. He goes back to teaching in the technical school, saying: "If I can only save some of them from waste, the waste I went through, the waste of spirit I see everywhere about me in our life today, I shall be content. I don't know that it can be done, that waste is not inherent, inevitable, in the process of living, but it is worth the effort...