Education: Hobby Hall

Last week in The Hill School, Pottstown, Pa., there were no students. But in their dispersed homes where they were passing their Easter vacation, the students thought often of their school. For to The Hill two great things had happened.

One was the gift of Alumnus Briggs Cunningham. He bought and presented to the school the ring in which Fisticuffer James Joseph Tunney defeated onetime world champion William Harrison Dempsey in Philadelphia (TIME, Oct. 4, 1926). It will be installed in the rambling gymnasium after the basketball season. Here many students, more...

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