Word: award
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That such a goal must be distant even for rich Harvard, President Conant admits. But as first steps toward it he would combine present funds, make one fat $1,200 fellowship out of four thin $300 scholarships, award it for two or three years instead of one. As an experiment, he would like to set up half a dozen $1,000 freshman scholarships in a section...
...Awarded. To Arthur Edwin Kennelly, 72, Harvard and M. I. T. professor of electrical engineering famed for his pioneer description of the Kennelly-Heaviside layer (ionosphere in the upper atmosphere which presumably reflects radio waves): the Edison Medal, top electrical engineering award; by the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, in Manhattan...
...plan for the award of scholarships from the money left over after donations to charitable organizations, a radical departure from the usual budgetary procedure of the Student Council, was revealed last night by Richard G. Ames '34, president of the organization. The plan which has been worked out by Ames and Theodore Chase '34, treasurer of the council, calls for the award of two or more substantial scholarships yearly to undergraduates who are active in college affairs...
...reduction in cost of recent class elections, especially the omission of pre-election posters, netted the council a considerable amount. If the plan is passed by the Student Council at its next meeting early this month, and is approved by Dean Hanford and President Conant, the council will award one scholarship for the second half-year, the recipient to be determined both by college activity and mid-year grades...
...enter the territory, built his own railroads. A rugged individualist of the Ford school, he hates & fears the banker, denounces all curtailment agreements among newsprint makers as "restraints of trade." Last week when the banker regime in his old company pooh-poohed his libel suit, he said: "A $1 award means victory, vindication...