President Conant, who shared speaking honors with President Baxter, compared the tranquil scene at Adams's informal dinner with a similar dinner at Trinity College, in Cambridge, England. There the banquet was practically disrupted by an air-raid alarm, but the intrepid students remained in their places until the "immediate danger" signal should come-which it never did.
Special scholarship prizes were awarded during the course of the evening to two Juniors-Robert G. V. Dallahan and Richard B. Seymour, and to two Sophomores-John J. Butler and Donald H. Shively. These students were given books with a special Adams House Binding and a bookplate saying "this book is awarded by the associates of the House for his notable achievement in scholarship."
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