Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first "library meeting" of the term was held at Dr. McCosh's parlors Wednesday night, where Mr. Johnson, who has the mental science fellowship, read a paper on some phases of the problem of knowledge, which received the most favorable criticism from all present. It is understood that Dr. McCosh contemplates a slight change in the management of these meetings so they will be more under the undergraduates charge. They have been such a wonderful success managed as they are, however, that but few wish to run the risk of making any charge whatever...
...suggestion that the beaten college should support its sister, financially and otherwise, is especially good. Nothing could be better to foster a spirit of good fellowship between Harvard and Yale, which is sadly lacking. There is a great deal of unnecessary feeling between the colleges, which tends to estrange the students from each other...
Notice is hereby given of the foundation, by the gift of Hon. Robert Treat Paine, of the class of 1855 of Harvard College, of the Robert fret Paine Fellowship of Social Science. This fellowship may be awarded to a graduate of any department of this University, wishing to study either at home or abroad the ethical problems of society, and the efforts of legislation, government administration, and private philanthropy, to ameliorate the lot of the masses of mankind. The annual income of this fellowship will be $500. Appointments are to be made for the term of one academic year...
...professorship of physical culture in memory of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, which is now held by Dr. Edward Hitchcock. President Seelye gave a detailed statement of the financial condition of the college. He approved the plan of a Beecher memorial, and was of the opinion that if this fellowship was endowed, others would be in a short time. Amherst had one great drawback - that among her alumni there were not wealthy men, as there were among the alumni associations of other colleges...
Johns Hopkins University bestows twenty fellowships per annum on graduates of that University, who propose to devote their life to special branches of science or literature. The holder of such a fellowship is exempt from tuition and receives $300 yearly...