Pot Pourri

Harvard Wins. Four weeks after they had laid down their pens for the glory of Harvard and of Yale in English literature (TIME, May 14), the "brain" teams of the two universities heard the verdict. Harvard won, 93 to 117, the scoring being done as in a cross country race (one point for the best examination paper, 20 points for the worst). Two Harvard undergraduates--Nathan M. Pusey of Council Bluffs, Iowa, and James L. McLane of Garrison, Md.--finished first and second. Yale's best, George T. Washington of Detroit, great -grandnephew of Father -of -His -Country George Washington, finished third. Harvard's reward is $5,000 worth of books given by Mrs. William Lowell Putnam, sister of President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard.

"Christian Character." Louis Behr ofi Rockford, Ill., Jewish student at the University of Wisconsin, was awarded the Kenneth Sterling Day Trophy for "Christian character, distinguished service and scholarship."

Louis Behr, the fourth child of prolific Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Behr of Rockford, Ill., who have eight children, has played for three years on his college basketball team; also he has served its Jewish society, the B'nai B'rith, Hillel Foundation. Upon winning his prize, he was the recipient of a telegram from the New York World, asking him to give his "conception of a Christian gentleman's code of conduct." This request arrived "just as I [Behr] was bidding my fraternity brothers of Phi Sigma Delta farewell at our senior banquet," a circumstance which may have explained some of the garrulity with which the youth fulfilled it. Extracts: "If I have the personal qualities requisite for the Kenneth Sterling Day award--if I have a sound moral character--it is because my parents and my religion have taught me the wisdom of not having an immoral character.

"If I have the power in any way to influence the life of the student body, it is because the student body is inherently good. I have been very fortunate in being the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Behr, in coming under the influence of excellent teachers, in having been initiated into the Phi Sigma Delta fraternity . . . and of attending a college with a campus so beautiful in its natural simplicity that one cannot help but feel the hand of God. . . .

"I hope that anything I have said here will be interpreted correctly by the younger boys of New York, for then they can realize how easy it is to receive the honors bestowed upon me."

Eliot's Grandson. Thomas Hopkinson, senior at Harvard, grandson of the late beloved President Charles W. Eliot of Harvard, was awarded the Lionel d'Jersey Harvard studentship at Cambridge University, England.

Morrow's Daughter. For the most original piece of creative writing, and also for the best essay on "Women of Dr. Johnson's Time," Anne Morrow of the senior class won two prizes at Smith College. She is the daughter of a man who was a partner in J. P. Morgan & Co., is now U. S. Ambassador to Mexico, and in whose person both business and politics are flattered since he is constantly spoken of as prospective president of some great university: Dwight Whitney Morrow. His elder daughter, Elizabeth, no literary laggard, teaches in the Englewood, N. J., high school, having been graduated from Smith College three years ago.

Amherst's Dean. A good big bonfire crackled on the campus of Amherst College (alma mater of Calvin Coolidge and Dwight Whitney Morrow). In the fire, Amherst's Dean Thomas C. Esty was burned in effigy. That was one way the undergraduates hoped to put teeth in their resolutions demanding smoking privilege during examinations, automobile privilege on the campus for juniors after the spring recess, honor system in examination rooms, etc.

No "Dates." The board of education of Newcomerstown, Ohio, passed a resolution prohibiting teachers and pupils from marrying each other and from having "dates" (social engagements) during the school year. Violators will be ousted from the public schools.

Mountaineering. Professor Kirtley Fletcher Mather, director of the Harvard geology department, will give this summer a course in mountaineering. Students will climb 13 peaks (ranging from 9,000 to 15,000 feet), study rocks, take a final examination on the Matterhorn.