Class of 1890
One of the outstanding papers read at the meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, held at the Hotel Statler June first, was that of Dr. George Van Ness Dearborn of New York. Dr. Dearborn's paper was entitled "Notes on the Nature of Dementia, Mental Deterioration," and it was described in the Boston Herald as the product of two decades of research. A picture of Dr. Dearborn accompanied the newspaper account of the meeting.
Dr. William Gerry Morgan of Washington, D. C., was the Memorial Day orator at Newport, N. H., where Dr. Morgan spends his summers. Dr. Morgan served with the Medical Corps during the war and was recently made a member of Claude J. Brewster Post, American Legion, of Newport.
The honorary degree of Pd.D. was conferred on O. D. Mathewson, head of the Lyndon Institute, by Middlebury College, at the Commencement in June.
Ex-Senator George H. Moses and Mrs. Moses spent the summer in Europe, visiting various capitals. Senator Moses attended the recent world economic conference, where he represented a syndicate of forty-two newspapers.
The Rev. George Sherman Mills, D.D., has been enjoying a respite from ministerial duties, making his home in Belfast, Me., for several months past, playing golf and otherwise enjoying life. He has accepted an interim pastorate over a Congregational church in Mansfield, Ohio, beginning his duties there September 10. Mansfield is but 70 miles from Cleveland, where George's son, Charles, Dartmouth 1919, resides with his family. George plans to attend the world's fair in Chicago, in which city he had an important pastorate for five years.
The second annual award of the Mandel prize in American thought has been made to Carroll A. Boynton '33 of New York City, for his essay on "Whitman as a Pacifist," according to announcement by Prof. W. K. Stewart, chairman of the committee of award. The stated prize of SSO was doubled by the donors on account of the distinguished quality of the essay. The Mandel prize was established as an annual award in 1931 by Frank E. Mandel '24 and Richard H. Mandel '26, both of Chicago. No essay of adequate quality was submitted in 1932. Carroll Boynton is the son of our classmate, Dr. Perry S. Boynton.
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