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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...award of 18 fellowships for graduate study to students of Harvard University has been announced at University Hall. The total awards amount to $27,600, or an average of about $1.500. Most of the fellowships are for study abroad, and cover a wide range of subjects, including history, chemistry, mathematics, modern languages, music and fine arts...
Under the terms of the award, any craft propelled by the man power of an undergraduate publication may issue a challenge within two weeks of the date scheduled for the races. The American Association for the Advancement of Annual Amateur Crab-catching Carnivals between College Comics and Dailies was founded to improve international relations...
...This award was founded by Mr. and Mrs. Alexander M. Hadden of New York City in the interests of international peace and one scholarship is assigned to a Junior in each of about a dozen large colleges throughout the country. Last year Peregrine White '33 held the Harvard appointment...
Left over from a time when course grades were, almost exclusively, the basis of the degree, the general honors award has become sharply out of harmony with the ideal and aims of the college. It places unfortunate stress on the grade-grubbing routine and permits neglect of tutorial work, the thesis, and the advantages of concentrated study in one field culminating in general examinations. Aside from its inadequacy within the College, there is marked inequity in granting the same cum laude on such different grounds of achievement. The degree should be a badge of something approaching maturity of outlook; nine...
...small Ernest Truex). his forgotten Wartime companion, comes to call. Fournier is jostled and insulted by the secretaries, office boys, critics, novelists who jam the great man's office. He is allowed to cool his heels until the publisher learns that the prize committee has capriciously given its award to Fournier's privately published book because it was the only entry for which there was no logrolling. When, a year later, it becomes evident that Fournier is unable to write about anything that has not actually happened to him or his wife (pretty Peggy Wood). Mosca adroitly arranges...