Word: award
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charles William Kessler '37, of Salem, has received the Burr Scholarship award for 1937, the Committee on Scholarships announced yesterday...
...Harvard Dean's office also announced today the award of additional Freshman scholarship totaling $2,175 to the following first year...
...accept a gift of five hundred dollars proffered by Mr. David Dubinsky from the International Ladies Garment Union, the Daily Princetonian has compared their University's predicament with Harvard's Hanfstaengl case. The facts appear to be that Mr. Dubinsky offered the money to replace an award of Mr. Martin W. Littleton, which the latter decided to revoke for reasons of political prejudice. But, because of the value of a conservative reputation at a time when it is conducting an endowment drive, Princeton is loth to accept money from so dangerous a sources as the International Union. Yet the principle...
...Hanfstaengl situation. While Princeton's gift is from a private American source, Harvard's was from an official of a foreign government, and a government that has done everything in its power to destroy the ideals of education for which Harvard has battled so long. Furthermore, Hanfstaengl's award was a travelling fellowship for study in Germany, while Mr. Dubinsky's gift comes free of all strings, for general college funds. Thus no taint of subscribing to ideals contrary to the free educational system can attach to Princeton if it accepts the gift...
...well to bridge the gaps that modern specialization has brought in wide fields of scholastic endeavor. The symposia of scholars, gathered in September to disseminate their knowledge over the council board, set a precedent that bids fair to have great future importance in the spread of higher learning. The award of degrees to the savants, at which the president pledged the university to the maintenance of the free educational tradition, marked the climax of the year, for in a sense the torch of learning was taken up by new rumors and carried on toward the future. And, even more tickling...