Word: beit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lately, been in a position to undertake the erection of a Rhodes House at Oxford, to form an annex to the Bodleian Library and a centre for students of politics in the English-speaking world and for African students. Last week at the annual Rhodes dinner Trustee Sir Otto Beit announced still another Rhodes innovation-a memorial lectureship of ?500 per annum to bring to Oxford for a term each year and for not less than two lectures a foreign man or woman "of pre-eminent distinction" in public life or business, in science, scholarship or letters-preferably from...
These three fellowships valued at 175 pounds or approximately $850 apiece are presented annually from a fund given in 1913 by Mr. Otto Beit of England. The successful candidates will devote all of their time during the year to original, scientific research at the Imperial College of Science and Technology in South Kensington near London, and at the end of this period are expected to compile the results of their work in the form of a book. Candidates for these fellowships may be either men or women who are under 25 years of age, both of whose parents...