Brown, Siler, Slaggie Recipients Of Senior Honorary Scholarships

Three honorary scholarships were awarded to seniors, Dean Leighton announced yesterday.

J. Carter Brown '56 of Eliot House and Providence received this year's Paul Revere Frothingham Scholarship for "excellent scholarship, manliness, and effective support of the interests of Harvard." This award is given in memory of a graduate in the Class of 1886. Brown is president of the Glee Club and a member of the Eliot House Drama Group.

The Francis H. Burr Scholarship for the senior who combines the qualities of "character, leadership, scholarship, and athletic ability" possessed by Burr, football captain in 1908, was won by track captain Arthur G. Siler '56 of Winthrop House and Orinda, Calif. He is a Phi Beta Kappa scholar and won a Rhodes Scholarship for study at Oxford next year.

Another Phi Beta Kappa member, E. Leo Slaggie, Jr., of Lowell House and Dayton, Ohio, received the Palfrey exhibition given annually to the most distinguished scholar in the Senior Class who also holds a stipendiary scholarship" in honor of John G. Palfrey, Class of 1815. Last year Slaggie was the winner of the Silver debating medal. He is active in the Band and the Mountaineering Club.

Brown's field of concentration is History and Literature, Siler's History, and Slaggie's, Physics. Brown is a graduate of Groton School, Siler, of Ascalanes High School in California, Slaggie, of Oakwood High School, Dayton.