Princeton's Best

Each year since 1922 Princeton has awarded its No. 1 undergraduate honor, the Moses Taylor Pyne Prize, to "that member of the senior class who . . . has most clearly manifested . . . excellent scholarship, manly qualities and effective support of the best interests of Princeton University."

On Alumni Day last week President Harold Willis Dodds made this year's award. Though the winner was a 12-year-old Arlington, Mass, schoolboy in 1922, it seemed to proud Princeton men that the prize had been created expressly for such a one as he.

His name was Arthur Stephen Lane and he stood 6 ft. 2 in. tall, weighed 196 Ib. Eldest child of an Arlington commission merchant who has four other sons, six daughters, he has had to work for part of his college expenses. At Phillips Exeter he was senior class president, student council chairman, football captain and All-New England tackle. He started his career at Princeton by being elected class president, captain of the freshman football and hockey teams. Each year since then his classmates have re-elected him their president. A broken collar bone laid him up for most of the football season in 1932, but otherwise he has played on every varsity football and hockey team for three years. He was captain and right tackle of last season's undefeated eleven. He is also chairman of Princeton's undergraduate council, chairman of its honor system committee, member of its discipline com mittee, a director of its Student-Faculty Association, undergraduate representative on its new-library committee and president of its Catholic Club.

Arthur Lane has, said President Dodds last week, shown "uninterrupted improvement in scholarship'' since freshman year. Soft-voiced and friendly, he is concededly the best-liked student on Princeton's campus. Last week his proud classmates were ready to challenge the U. S. to produce a more likely candidate for Ideal College Man of 1934.

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