Dartmouth Plaque

THE DARTMOUTH PLAQUE, awarded annually to the secondary school whose delegation of three or more men in the freshman class makes the highest scholastic record during the first semester, has been given this year to the Horace Mann School for Boys, in New York City, whose sevenman delegation achieved a combined average of 3.03.

Second honors went to the Swampscott (Mass.) High School, whose three men had 2.93, and third honors to the Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School of Brooklyn, N. Y., whose four men had 2.878. Other school delegations with high rankings in scholastic achievement were Columbus (Ohio) Academy, three men, 2.875; Harvard School for Boys, of Chicago, three men, 2.830; Columbia High School, South Orange and Maplewood, N. J., three men, 2.690; and Scarsdale (N. Y.) High School, five men, 2.670.

The seven men in the winning Horace Mann group are James E. Cavanagh Jr., Northampton, Mass.; John A. Gambling, New York City; Lloyd H. Gaston Jr., New York City; Michael Heyman, New York

City; Michael lovenko, Cross River, N. Y.; Alan Judson, New York City; and Stuart M. Paley, New York City.

Because of the war the Dartmouth Plaque award was temporarily discontinued after its 194 a presentation to the James Madison High School of Brooklyn, N. Y. The Plaque, engraved with the names of the winning delegation, is presented each year to the top school to be hung as a permanent possession. An entirely new design for the Plaque has been prepared this year by Prof. Ray Nash of the art department, one of the country's foremost designers and typographers.