Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan after a European trip Russell Allen Firestone, second son of Tire Tycoon Harvey Firestone and member of Frank N. D. Buchman's First Century Christian Fellowship, was asked by a newshawk: "How can there be unselfishness in business under the capitalistic system?" Russell Allen Firestone replied: "Well, I feel that the real harm from capitalism, as it affects labor, has come from anonymous capital and not the widely-known capitalists. For example, men like my father, John D. Rockefeller and Henry Ford believe in aiding those who work for them. They live for service and really are altruistic...
Application for the Charles Eliot Norton Fellowship must be made not later than Friday, December 1, it was announced last night by Charles B. Gulick '90, chairman of the committee on the Fellowship...
...This fellowship was founded 32 years ago by the late James Loeb '88, in memory of Professor Charles Eliot Norton. Undergraduates or graduates of Harvard University or Radcliffe are eligible. It is awarded by a committee of the Department of Classics, of which Professor Gulick is chairman, on the basis of a thesis on some approved subject and on such other evidence of classical scholarship as may be accessible. In special circumstances the committee may not require the thesis. In all cases the award is made without regard to the pecuniary need of the competitor...
...Fellowship carries an annual stipend of $1300, and its holder must study at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, devoting himself or herself to the study of some special subject in the field of Greek literature, history, art, archaeology, or topography...
Since retiring from the presidency of Harvard, Dr. Lowell has accepted an appointment to a Senior Fellowship and has succeeded the late President Hibben of Princeton as chairman of a commission to study the influence of motion pictures on children...