Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most U. S. colleges there exist two kinds of faculty members: the teaching professors and the research professors. Dear to the heart of the undergraduate is many a teaching professor. Him they afterward remember for what little light and learning they possess, and also for his eccentricities, for good fellowship. When they grow old they swap anecdotes about him; if they become Trustees they like to see him prosper in his fashion. But the research professors, who sometimes regard the civilizing of students as a vague, even faintly vulgar waste of time, are the darlings of their erudite colleagues...
Masons, printed an almanac (Poor Richard's), was a colonel in the French & Indian War, founded a hospital. He became the biggest printer in the Colonies and was made deputy postmaster-general. His electrical experiments (demonstration of the identity of lightning and electricity) won him a Fellowship in the Royal Society. He was sent to London to get Pennsylvania freed of the Penns and made a crown colony...
...refueling record (TIME. Aug. 12). With L. H. Atkinson, until recently sub-executive for Universal Air Lines, he sent out the first of 140,000 letters to pilots, mechanics, apprentices and student flyers to get them to affiliate with the American Federation of Labor. They seek to promote brotherly fellowship, make working conditions safer, establish a standard wage; protect airmen from unjustifiable discharge, limit the hours of labor, promote the general well being of aircraft workers. Stirring them to this effort is their belief that airlines are thinking of cutting the pay of all classes of employes except officials. Both...
Announcement of holders of travelling fellowships and scholarships of the Harvard School of Architecture has been made by G. H. Edgell '09, dean of the school. The Nelson Robinson Jr. Travelling Fellowship in Architecture, established for 18 months of travel and study, has been granted to J. L. Cannon '26. The Julia Amory Appleton Travelling Fellowships in Architecture, also for a year and a half of peripatetic study, are held by C. O. Root and C. T. Larson '25. One of the travelling fellowships from the Frederick Sheldon Fund, which was established for a student of promise in any school...
Speaking before a luncheon gathering at the Liberal Club, yesterday; H. M. Watkins, British Laborite, who is traveling in the United States under a Rockefeller Fellowship, said that the outstanding feature of American industry, as seen by an Englishman, is the willingness of operators to discard out of date machinery. He predicted that within a few generations American prosperity would fall into decline...