Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Research Fellow, Dr. Herbert F. Schurmann, at the Harvard-Yenching Institute, received the fourth local award to continue his studies on Turkey, Persia and Japan for the next two years...
...into a Yeats museum. Valentin Iremonger, one of Ireland's leading younger poets, calbd this "pernicious sentimentality." Said Iremonger: "We ought to honor our dead by loving our living, not by erecting a necropolis in the County Galway." Iremonger thought he had a better idea: an occasional monetary award for deserving poets. Thomas McGreevy, director of Ireland's National Gallery, thought the ideal memorial would be a retreat where poets and scholars could work in peace-a kind of "Castle in the Water" such as Yeats had dreamed up long ago with Maud Gonne, the great Irish beauty...
William H. McClain, Allston Burr tutor at Dunster House, has taken over the handling of Rhodes Scholarships, while Reginald B. Phelps '30 is in charge of Fulbright Award details. Further information as to the organization of the fellowship system will be announced at the meeting...
...doctor, lawyer, businessmen, president of Harvard (James Bryant Conant '14) and president of the United States (Franklin D. Roosevelt '04). For those with literary aspirations who are more attracted to local magazines it is pointed out that for the past three years the CRIMSON has won the Dana Reed award for the best place of writing in an undergraduate publication...
...Once in a Lifetime") of a heart attack; on a train near Bridgeport, Conn. Webster's most popular creation was fluttery, myopic Caspar Milquetoast, but he was nearly as well-known for his cartooned jibes at bridge and canasta fiends, radio & TV (for which he received a Peabody Award in 1950), wives who never understand a joke, and for his knowing, sometimes poignant recollections of a turn-of-the-century childhood...