Word: darrah
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Greene Scholarship is the third that has been established at the University within the past fortnight. The first of these was the "William Henry Meeker '17 Scholarship," to be awarded "for excellence in some of the English courses"; while the second was founded as the "Robert Darrah Jenks Scholarship" in memory of a graduate of that name of the class of 1897. For the duration of the war, the income from this latter scholarship may be applied for such military measures as the University may desire...
...University has received a gift of $5,500 to establish the Robert Darrah Jenks Scholarship in memory of the graduate of that name of the Class of 1897. For the duration of the war the income is to be applied for such war measures as the University may desire. After the war the income is to be used to support a scholarship in Railroad...
...Robert Darrah Jenks died on January 22, 1917, in Philadelphia, Pa. He prepared for College at the Penn Charter School, graduated from the University in the Class of 1897 and after a year of railroading took up the study of law. He graduated from the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1901 and was a practising lawyer thereafter, devoting much of his time to public causes. For many years a trustee of the Penn School in South Carolina, he was also a member of the Philadelphia Committee of Seventy, secretary of the Pennsylvania Civil Service Reform Association...
...scholarship is the joint gift of his mother, Mrs. William Furness Jenks, and his wife, Mrs. Robert Darrah Jenks, who is at present engaged in Y. M. C. A. work abroad...
...Perhaps a few words about myself will get me 'oriented,' and give me a bit of framework to build upon. I got my commission in the United States Marines without any trouble, thanks to yours and other letters, and a long lanky frame. Darrah Kelly was under-weight, and no amount of argument and pleading could make up for the deficiency. I felt extremely sorry, but was powerless to do anything. After a few months at Quantico, Va., we got off in the early part of September. As I stood a regular turn in the submarine watch...