ROBERT BOYD AWARDED WENDELL SCHOLARSHIP

Robert M. Boyd '41, of New York City and Lowell House was awarded the Jacob Wendell Scholarship given annually to an outstanding scholar in the sophomore class. The prize scholarship, awarded regardless of financial status, carries a stipend of $500, and automatically makes the recipient a member of the society of previous winners who dine with the Wendell family and the President of Harvard.

The scholarship was founded in 1899 under the will of Jacob Wendell, father of Barrett Wendell, professor of English at Harvard from 1898 to 1917.

Boyd prepared for college at Avon Old Farms School. He is concentrating in astronomy, received four A's as his final average last term, auditing Japanese and is a member of the business staff of the Advocate. He plays tennis, and participates in sports.

Among the thirty-seven previous recipients of the Wendell scholarship are Samuel H. Cross '12, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard; Robert M. Green '02, Associate Professor of Applied Anatomy at Harvard; Seth T. Gane '07, Boston, secretary of the class of 1907 and former treasurer of Phi Beta Kappa; Jeffries Wyman Jr. '23 Associate Professor of zoology at Harvard; Mason Hammond '25, Assistant Professor of History and of Greek and Latin at Harvard; and George Is, Haskins '35, Junior Member of the Society of Fellows at Harvard.