Five Get Awards For Scholarship, College Activities

A former Student Council president and the current head of PBH were among four seniors and one junior to receive annual University awards yesterday.

Richard E. Johnson '53 of Dunster House and Galesburg, Illinois, past president of the Student Council, shared the Paul Revere Frothingham Award with Henry J. Landau '53 of Adams House and New York City, president of PBH, given in recognition of "excellent scholarship, manliness, and effective support of the best interests of Harvard University."

The highest academic standing of any senior majoring in Government brought Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr. '53 of Leverett House and Columbus, Ohio the Charles Joseph Bonaparte Award, given each year to that Government major who gives promise of raising the standards of government and citizenship.

A serious interest in classical thought and the desire to enter Law gained Henry S. Commager '54 of Lowell House and Rye, New York the Newhold Rhinelander Landen Memorial Scholarship.

The Palfrey Exhibition went to Robert J. Blattner '53 of Lowell House and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, "the most distinguished scholar in the Senior Class who is a recipient of a stipendiary scholarship."