Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...purpose of the du Pont Fellowship Plan is primarily to promote the advancement of science and the scientific training of young men, and to co-operate with the educational institutions in their efforts to carry on advanced research work. The du Pont fellowships differ from the usual industrial fellowships in that they are not restricted to research on subjects directly connected with the du Pont products. Experience has proved that the broad purpose of the plan is best served by permitting the colleges to select the beneficiary of the fellowship and the research subject as well...
...Pont Fellowship Plan was inaugurated by the du Pont Company in 1918. In that year, seventeen fellowships with an average stipend of $750 were made available to sixteen universities for research chemistry...
...test the general skill and intellectual promise of all students, will be given by the College Entrance Examination Board in 150 centers scattered throughout the United States on April 24. Applicants for all Harvard first-year awards will be required to take these exams, including all Harvard National Fellowship applicants. Individual Harvard Club awards, however, will be given out separately by the different Clubs throughout the country, although the Clubs may require their candidates to take the exams...
...will now talk." A pioneer suffragist, Socialist sister of Shipping Tycoon Sir Thomas Royden, she was launched as an active pulpiteer by Dr. Joseph Fort Newton, who in 1917 made her his assistant at London's City Temple, "Cathedral of British Nonconformity." With Canon Percy Dearmer she founded fellowship services at Kensington Town Hall, then set up as an independent minister at Guild-house in London's Eccleston Square. Possessor of an intellect vastly superior to any Aimee Semple McPherson (see below), Preacher Royden nevertheless employed a modicum of showmanship in uniforming her attendants and herself in berets...
Scholarships totaling $2,750 have been awarded to five students in the graduate schools, it was announced yesterday. Edwin G. Thurlow, of Watertown, has been awarded the Charles Eliot Travelling Fellowship in Landscape Architecture...