Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...change. Like it or not, religion to a student is an intensely private affair and he hesitates to make public his inner attitudes. It is my private opinion that religious associations in college have not sufficiently recognized this normal religious reticence on the part of the majority of men. Fellowship in the more personal and intimate phases of religious experience should be kept for private, congenial groups, where sincerity can be protected from publicity. . . . Many men in college today are ready to offer their help, but hesitate to do so through the Philadelphian Society because of the inherited prejudice against...
...Alexander Marble, teaching fellow in Medicine at the Harvard Medical school, was awarded the William O. Moseley Jr. Travelling Fellowship for the coming year. Twelve holders of Sheldon travelling fellowships for the year 1930-31 and four holders of these fellowships for this summer were announced as follows: for 1930-31--A. E. Currier 3G, G. L. Day 4G, Edward Dumbauld gr.L,. P. S. Harris 2G, W. J. Huchthausen 2S.A., W. K. Jordan 2G, R. L. Kilgour Instr., J. C. McGalliard 2G, D. W. MacKinnon 4G, E. S. Robinson 3G, B. T. Silverstein 4G, W. L. Wiley...
Recent years have witnessed a great burgeoning of California cults. Examples : The Rosicrucian Fellowship. In Oceanside is a fellowship founded by one Max Heindel who wrote a book called Cosmo-Conception while living in a Manhattan boarding house on a diet of milk and shredded wheat. Object of his cult: to distribute literature on Western learning, to practice spiritual healing through agents known as "Elder Brothers" and "Invisible Helpers." There are no public ceremonies; a maxim of the fellowship is in substance: "Know all things but remain unknown." Founder Heindel died in 1916. his work is now continued...
...Foundation exerts an influence, however slight, against the forces of ignorance. Philanthropy could have found no better object than in the organizing and furthering of knowledge to continue this work. From this larger point of view, scholarship for the sake of scholarship alone becomes of secondary importance and a Fellowship in the Guggenheim Foundation becomes a responsibility as well as an honor...
...Poet Stephen Vincent Benet wrote his best-seller poem, John Brown's Body, on a Guggenheim Fellowship...