Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scattered lodgings into the communal life of Georgian dormitories near the Charles River. Finally in 1928 a gift of $13,000,000 from Edward Stephen Harkness allowed him to fulfill a longtime dream. By splitting his unwieldy body of upperclassmen into seven residential Houses he hoped to restore the fellowship of student and student, student and teacher, which small, oldtime Harvard had possessed...
That such a goal must be distant even for rich Harvard, President Conant admits. But as first steps toward it he would combine present funds, make one fat $1,200 fellowship out of four thin $300 scholarships, award it for two or three years instead of one. As an experiment, he would like to set up half a dozen $1,000 freshman scholarships in a section...
...comes from a distance. Yet we should be able to say that any man with remarkable talents may obtain his education at Harvard whether he be rich or penniless, whether he come from Boston or San Francisco. This is an ideal toward which we must work; today our fellowship and scholarship funds are woefully inadequate. In my opinion we should have a large number of fellowships paying as much as twelve hundred dollars. The universities in this country should be the apex of a pyramid based on our highly developed school system. A path to the top should be open...
...must have warmed his old grandfather's heart even before he graduated from Dartmouth. There he dug hard into economics and taught a Sunday school class of twelve-year-old girls. In his senior year he pleased his social-minded father, John Davison Rockefeller Jr., by winning a fellowship which exempted him from examinations and permitted him to dig into the fine arts as well. Just before graduation in 1930 he said: "I don't claim to have sprouted wings. . . . But I have de veloped a growing enthusiasm and appreciation [for art] which will stay with...
...with 32 mergers) to be the biggest bank west of Manhattan -a title since taken over by Mr. Giannini's Bank of America of which Arthur Reynolds last February became vice chairman. To the Brothers Reynolds also went criticism for overexpanding loans, for sometimes employing good fellowship instead of good judgment in banking. On their heads also poured the wrath of Chicago's oldtime banking aristocrats. Today few Chicagoans care to discuss the Reynolds Brothers. The job of Continental s next chairman will be to put the bank which has successfully survived the Depression and the Insull collapse...