Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WILMINGTON, DEL. Jan 25; Harvard will be one of 18 American colleges which will have a post-graduate student working under a Du Pout Chemical research fellowship next year, it was announced at the company here today...
...Rope & Faggot, which he wrote in France on a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1927-28, Author White maintained that the long tradition of U. S. vigilantism has finally narrowed down to the Southern Negro, not to protect Southern womanhood as was usually claimed (he found rape charged in less than one lynching in five*), but to shackle and harry a growing economic competitor. Rope & Faggot also maintained that lynch law dated back to Colonial days when a Quaker named Charles Lynch sat as magistrate in an extra-legal court at what is now Lynchburg, Va., to try horse thieves...
...singularly bad start, Mrs. Nieman's plan last week came through to a finish heartily acclaimed by educators and press. Having mulled over the Nieman worry with leading publishers and editors, President Conant announced the novel Nieman Fellowship plan which falls well within the broad provisions of Mrs. Nieman's gift, actually $1,000,000 after taxes had been paid. With the $40,000 income Harvard will set up 15 annual Nieman Fellowships to be awarded to working newspapermen on leave of absence for an academic year (or half year) of Harvard study in any field they choose...
...Herald Tribune informally canvassed staffmen on what each would study if he were awarded a Nieman Fellowship. The poll: Economics, 24; U. S. History, 2 ; English Composition, 3 ; English Literature, 1; Spanish, 1; Zoology, 1; Mathematics, 1; Business Management, 1; Ethics...
...undoubtedly contribute towards the advancement of human knowledge and the improvement of human society. An athletic training would develop to the fullest the mental balance which forms a prerequisite for good citizenship. Thus it is at least open to question which would comprise the greatest loss to Harvard, potential fellowship and scholarship men or a potential endowed athletic program. It is unfair for the President to cast the athletic endowment into the ash barrel by failing to mention it in his report on the state of the University...