Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Establishment of a new Ralph Walde Emerson Fellowship in Poetry, and the appointment of Robert Frost, noted poet, as first incumbent, were announced today by the University...
...Frost will be in residence at Harvard under the fellowship for two years beginning next September. The purpose of the fellowship is to enable distinguished poets to come to Harvard for one or two years, to meet informally with students interested in poetry, and perhaps to give formal courses...
Funds for the new fellowship were raised by a committee composed of Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English; Robert S. Hillyer, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory; Archibald MacLeish, poet and journalist, Curator of the Nieman Collection of Contemporary Journalism; David M. Little, Secretary to the University, and Master of Adams House; and David McCord, poet, Executive Secretary of the Harvard Fund Council...
...boasted that he could get 10,000 persons to demand the Russian Fellowship for Hicks but said he would probably limit the number to 500. At first Dorgan made no mention of the petition, merely inquiring if the signers of the petition here urging Hicks' retention on the Faculty were American...
...petition which he finally produced, read as follows; "We, the under-signed do hereby petition, due to the fact that Granville Hicks has been bodily fired from Harvard University, to make arrangements for him to have a fellowship in the University of Moscow...