Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Parker fellowship for 1923-24 has just been awarded to Joseph Louis Zimmerman 4G., of San Francisco, California, who is a 1917 graduate of the University of California and who received his degree of Master of Arts at Harvard in 1922. He is to continue in Europe his study of philosophy...
...Parker Fellowships for graduate students were established in 1873 by the bequest of John Parker Jr., and the Governor and Chief Justice of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences are required to concur in the opinion of the President and Fellows of Harvard as to the winner of the fellowship...
...target for gas waves and poison bombs. Destruction has always been a much more interesting pastime than mere beneficial prevention. This is proved by the popular renown of such geniuses as Attila, Nero, and Guy Fawkes, about whom every student of history reads with a secret feeling of fellowship. On the other hand very few could tell offhand the accomplishments of Laennec, Koch, or Takamine...
...fellowship of the nature of this one is a newcomer in educational circles, but the only thing about it which startles is that such a fellowship has not been established before. With the increasingly numerous strikes during the past twenty years, the rapid growth of laborers' and employers' unions, and the more and more apparent organizing of forces into two hostile armies, the need of some means of rapprochement has become clearly evident. Especially is it evident when at last the absolutely necessary combination of the two upon a single end has been recognized beyond a doubt. Although whether profit...
...committing this fellowship into Harvard's hands because of its liberalism, Mr. Wertheim has certainly filled its sails. Such a reputation is hardly won and, according to history, legend and poetry, even more hardly kept. The college has never prescribed any definite points of view; in fact it has encouraged more and more the presentation of opinions from every angle. While this does not make demagogues or fanatics, it does exercise, in the words of Henry Adams, "a negative force of greatest value" which smoothes out the "violent political bias of childhood". It forms men with broad minds...