Education: Dennett to Williams

Had the planets been properly placed above small Spencer, Wis. on the night of June 13, 1883 they would have pointed auspiciously, for one born under them, to the second week in May 1934. So born was Tyler Dennett, son of Spencer's Baptist pastor. On the first day of last week Tyler Dennett was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his biography of John Hay (TIME, May 14). On the sixth day he was named loth president of Williams College.

Williams' retiring President Harry Augustus Garfield, son of the 20th U. S. President, was...

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