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AWARD ASHBURN HIGHEST HONOR OPEN TO YALE JUNIOR

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New Haven, Conn., June 12.--Frank Davis Ashburn, Yale '25, of West Point, N. Y., was today awarded the Gordon Brown scholarship, considered the highest honor of the Junior year at Yale. The winner is chosen every year by the members of his class as the man who most closely approaches "the standards of intellectual ability, high manhood, capacity for leadership and service set by Francis Gordon Brown, 1901."

Ashburn is chairman of the Yale Daily News, and editor of the Literary Magazine, pitcher on the university nine, vice-president of the Yale Groton School Club, and member of the Debating Association, Dramatic Association, and Elizabethan Club.

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