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13 At School and College kdit.ul bv JOH.X O'HRIEN BROOKLYN LIFE AT SMITH COLLEGE this June 464 Bachelor of Arts degrees were awarded and twenty Master of Arts degrees. A LBERT T. ECKE of Brooklyn was graduated last week from Bowdoin College where he was a member of the varsity football team and was a star in dramatics. He is to join the Stuart Walker Players this summer. In the presentation of "Hamlet" at the Bowdoin Com-lmencement he took the title role.

He received the Bache-or of Science degree, PA. TOLMAN of Brooklyn served as a member of the Tree Committee at the Worcester Academy graduation. COLLEGE STUDENTS used to be content to stay at home or at some quiet summer cottage during the summer months, but to use a popular expression "them days has gone forever." Nowadays the students or at least most of them do one of two things. They either get a summer job or they go abroad. The Cornell Sun recently remarked that it is becoming almost unheard of for a undergraduate to spend his summer at home.

This year more of the young people are going abroad than ever before. DROOKLYN was interested in this year's Hudson River regatta, not alone because the Columbia crew won, but more particularly because a Brooklyn man, Horace J. Davenport of 10104 Fourth Avenue, was a member of the winning crew. He rowed at Number 7 and incidentally won his third major letter at Columbia, having been a member of last fall's football team and this winter's swimming team. As he was likewise a member of all three of these teams in his Freshman year, he has thus already been successful in making six Columbia teams within two years.

THE LARGEST CLASS in the history of Harvard University was graduated last week. Eighteen hundred degrees were conferred, of which 632 were undergraduate degrees (501 receiving the Bachelor of Arts), 157 Master of Arts, 58 Doctor of Philosophy and 333 Bachelor of Law. Among those who received the Bachelor of Arts degree were George Willard Bowen, James Raphael Cherry, Conrad Allison Hanson, Renwick Washington Hurry, Mi.ton Irving Katz (who was one of six students to receive the highest honors), James Lyall, all of Brooklyn; Robert Allan Pinker-ton, formerly of 32 Montgomery Place, but now of Bay Shore, L. Dana Converse Backus of Flushing; Donald Henderson Bowles of Kew Gardens; Alexander Thompson Coyle of Westhampton Beach; John Raymond Kochendorfer of Richmond Hill; Oliver Loomis West of Rockville Centre, and Peter Wolff of Far Rockaway. The Bachelor of Science degree was awarded to.

Eliot Deming Pratt of Glen Cove, Daniel Edgar Lynch, of Jamaica and Germain Rogers Bonneau of Bayside. The Harvard Law School graduates included Sherlock Davis, Walter Perry Moak and Olney Martin Raymond of Brooklyn. Maurice Joseph Allen and Herbert Leonard Elias of Brooklyn were graduated from the Medical School. MR. ROBINSON SQUIBB, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Charles Squibb, will be at the Ridgefield School, Ridgefield, next winter. Mr. Squibb began his teaching career as in instructor at the school but has recent been a master at Mohonk. Now he is to return as house master and he and Mrs.

Squibb will occupy the old headmaster's department in the school building. Paymaster: "Why do you want your wages in silver?" Scot: "Handin' the wife notes they get ripped in halves." Smith's Weekly (Sydney). AT WEST POINT Cadet Eugene A. Kenny of 219 Prospect Place, son of Dr. Eugene J.

Kenny, has been selected this summer as acting corporal in the Corps of Cadets. The appointment is based upon military, academic and extra-curricular work. DR. MARY M. CRAWFORD (Mrs.

Edward Schuster) has been elected a trustee of Cornell University. At the recent election she received 7,449 votes out of a total of 9,814. Dr. Crawford has the distinction of being the first woman ambulance surgeon in Brooklyn. She was graduated from Cornell in 1904 and in addition to her private practice she has.

charge of the Medical Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. She was formerly president of the Cornell Women's Club of New York and vice-president of the Cornell Alumni Corporation, as well as president of the Cornell Alumni Medical Association. COLLEGE GIRLS nowadays are not content just to settle down after graduation. They want to do something. Accordingly, it is not surprising to learn that 94 of this year's Senior Class at Smith, are going to work.

Education and business seem to be the most popular fields of labor, but the occupations selected range- all the way from law to agriculture, from music to occupational therapy and from home economics to landscape architecture. A large number are to become teachers, while almost as many will pursue post-graduate study. OVERTON TREMPER of 2697 Ocean Avenue, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter L.

was presented on July 1 with a big silver trophy as being the most valuable player on this year's University of Pennsylvania baseball team and also for leading the Eastern College players in batting. He served as captain of the University of Pennsylvania team. The presentation was made in Philadelphia by Murray Elgart in the triangle of the dormitories at the University. Irate Pater: "What do you mean by coming home at 5 A.M.?" Indignant Daughter: "For cryin' out loud, Popl I have to patronize the old roost some time, don't Washington and Lee Mink. THIS YEAR'S Brooklyn graduates at Wesleyan.

were Ernest S. Bijou, George B. King, Robert E. Thornhill, William D. Studenford and Abram B.

Lang-dale. Mr. Bijou was the class poet. Robert E. Thorn-hill was voted the handsomest man in the class.

Twenty -two men of the class do not smoke. At the Commencement exercises Lawrence R. Holmes of Flushing, a member of the Class of 1930, was awarded the Colt prize in English composition. AT THE PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY graduation on Tuesday of last week diplomas were awarded to Hector C. Adam, of 156 Hicks Street, Ernest E.

Cerf of Flushing, William G. Duval of Garden City, Phillips Finlay of Quogue, Henry Geers of Laurence, George D. Gudebrod of Huntington and William P. Patterson of Bayside. Henry Geers was elected to the Cum Laude Society and was one of the honor men of the first group.

MRS. BURTON P. TWITCHELL of New Haven, the former Miss Katherine E. Pratt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Charles M. Pratt of 241 Clinton Avenue, has made a gift of $5,000 for Gushing Hall, now being built at Vassar College. Mrs. Twitchell is a graduate of Vassar in the Gas's of 1914. mer American champion, Mrs.

Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, and several other very promising youngsters of the fair sex, the outlook for the women's game in the British Isles is excellent. Miss Helen Wills came back with flying colors at Wimbledon and since Suzanne has left the amateur ranks may now be regarded as the unrivaled woman champion of the world. She not only won the British women's singles title but, paired with "Bunny" Ryan, formerly of California, the women's doubles title. Incidentally, Miss Ryan and Hunter won the mixed doubles title, for which there is no American equivalent. Thus, with the exception of the men's singles, which went to France, it was a clean-up for the U.S.A.; but, unfortunately, the singles championship for men is worth all the rest of them put together.

More or Less About Sport By Herbert Hejjshaw matches may have declined with increasing years he is, as long as he can last, as brilliant and formidable as ever. It must be remembered that when he was at the zenith of his career he encountered no such opposition as the three Frenchmen, Cochet, Lacoste and Borotra, now present to championship "StSpirants, and that he set the pace for them and stablished the standard of play which they have attained. Consequently, they are, in a sense, his own proteges. "Little Bill" Johnston was for long his only dangerous rival, and it was only his superior physique and power that gave him the edge on the Calif ornian. HAS TILDEN SLIPPED? Of course, the defeat of Bill Tilden by Henri Cochet of France in the semi-final round of the British All Comers at Wimbledon will be generally accepted as evidence that Tilden is slipping, or has already slipped but if he had managed to win the one game he needed to score a straight-set victory over the Frenchman, everybody, of course, would have concluded that he was the same old Bill and as good as ever he was.

What I cannot understand is how, when leading Cochet five games to one in the third, and what would have been the deciding set, had he won it, he permitted, or could not prevent the latter from drawing even and winning six consecutive games for the set. There was, to be sure, nothing unprecedented in Cochet's remarkable display of pluck and endurance in coming up so far. from behind and winning out, but when the ultimate loser has come so near winning as Tilden was his failure to win has usually been due to over-confidence and consequent carelessness. It is hard, however to imagine Tilden, with so much at stake and confronted with so redoubtable an opponent, deliberately taking chances or letting down for a moment. Nevertheless, that he failed to win one game before Cochet was able to win four suggests the impression I have always had, that Tilden is far from the ideal match player and that he has compensated for his temperamental deficiencies by his incomparable skill.

I cannot help thinking that had he had Little Bill Johnston's temperament he would never have lost this match after getting the lead he had on Cochet and needing only one more game to win in straight sets. There is nothing to be surprised at that after letting the third set slip out of his hands the young Frenchman should have beaten him out in what amounted to a sheer test of endurance. The question remains whether Tilden has actually slipped back or the Frenchmen have merely slipped up on him. I am inclined to the latter view, or to the belief that while his ability to endure the strain of prolonged LOOKS LIKE FRANCE FOR THE DAVIS CUP Certainly, the outlook for retaining the Davis Cup is far from bright, though there is a crumb of comfort for those who delight in Yankee pre-eminence in the fact that Tilden and Hunter managed to win the doubles championship at Wimbledon. The capture of the Cup by France would certainly tend to boom the game on the Continent and in England.

But if it ever gets to France it is exceedingly problematical when we shall ever be capable of bringing it back. The French would appear t6 have some peculiar aptitude for this game. They have several youngsters already treading close on the heels of their Four Musketeers and neither we, nor1 Great Britain, ever had four players of tReir calibre at one time. Poor old England, who introduced the game and for years reigned supreme on the courts has not had a look-in at Wimbledon so far as the men are concerned since the Dohertys retired some twenty years ago. She was even blanked in the women's events this year, though in Betty Nuthall, who defeated the erstwhile Norse girl and for- GLITTERING POLO PROSPECTS The arrival on June 27th of forty-five of the polo ponies of the British Army-in-India polo team and one-two-legged member of the same team in the.

person of Captain J. P. Dening, to say nothing of Lieutenant Colonel George de la Poer Beresford, Honorary Secretary of the team which is challenging for the much coveted Httrlingham or Westchester Cup, to be played for beginning September 5 on the Meadow Brook field at Westbury, L. reminds me of the fact that we are going to see some polo competition this season that will, be worth talking about and will be long remembered by those who see it. The remainder of the team, consisting entirely of the two-legged species, genus Homo, is due here next Mon-oay by the Atlantic Transport liner Minnetonka.

They are Major E. G. Atkinson, who played on the defeated Hurlingham team of 1924, when the Prince of Wales was over here; Captain R. George, Captain A. H.

Williams, Lieutenant H. P. Guinness, Captain C. E. (Continued on page 16).