Jacobs Memorial Prize

THE WALTER A. JACOBS Memorial Prize, awarded to a first-year student in the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration who has distinguished himself as possessing a high degree of intellectual ability and curiosity, sound judgment and inspiring personal habits and conduct, will for the first time be a feature of commencement this year on June 13.

Together with the honor of the winner's name being inscribed on the permanent plaque in Tuck School's Clearing House, there is a substantial prize of books for him to choose. The books, as the terms of the award provide, are not textbooks, but of a type that will serve as "the nucleus of a really worthwhile lifetime library."

Established in 1946 as a memorial to Lieut, (jg) Walter Albert Jacobs '42, a Tuck School student was was killed in action during the previous year, the award was made possible through funds contributed by the widow and parents of Lt. Jacobs and friends of the family.

Plans for the award were carried out by the Jacobs family in consultation with President Dickey and Dean Herluf V. Olsen. Among its unusual details of procedure is the participation of both students and faculty in the selection of the annual prizewinner, the students choosing the recipient by ballot from three mem- bers of the first-year class nominated by the faculty.

As permanent symbol of the memorial and its intentions, the donors ordered a plaque on which winners of the award would be recorded, and a book label to mark the source of the prize together with the recipient's name each year.

Prof. Ray Nash, of the art department, whose work along this line includes such impressive pieces as the Naumburg Memorial for Harvard University, was engaged by the donors to plan and supervise execution of these designs.

Before beginning to make the plaque's engraved copper plate, Professor Nash prepared a careful, full-scale drawing and hung it in the particular wall space the finished memorial would occupy. He was then able to proceed with the lettering, engraving and polishing of the plate.

The book label is, in general, a typographic miniature of the plaque, and like it, expresses a simple dignity outside the short turns of fashion, that seems entirely in keeping with this important new memorial at Dartmouth.

SLUGGER, DOG LOVER, AND CUP WINNER: Hank Durham, Big Green first baseman and league-leading hitter last season, who has been awarded the James H. Cooke Trophy as the player doing the most for baseball at Dartmouth. If Hanover dogs could vote they would elect him President.