Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Else, who has been here for seven years, has already left for Washington to assume his duties there in liaison work with the War Department. After graduating from Harvard with a summa, he obtained his Ph.D. in 1934, spent a year traveling in Europe on a fellowship, and taught at Cambridge Junior College before joining the faculty...
...Here's what I'm tired of: all this talk about fellowship and good will and you fellows circumnavigating the globe...
Four University Faculty members were among the 64 recipients of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowships chosen this year. Annually distributing around $2,500 each in stipends, the Fellowship projects this year concentrate on the civilization of the Americas in particular...
...Terms. Democracy is going down to the tomb. The need for world fellowship, bred in terror, is furnishing a binder to hold men together. The belief in the dignity of man, of all men, is in itself a primary protection against the perfidies of the war of nerves, a check against the regimentation of domestic life, a guarantee against life's waste in war. It is the bond between the drawings of the engineer and the unformed hope of the man in the street; it is the force that overcomes the bickerings of allies, the conflicts of national prestige...
When in 1932 Italy celebrated the tenth anniversary of Mussolini's March on Rome, Peter Blume was there. Traveling on a Guggenheim Fellowship, he saw among Rome's ruins many things that stayed with him, from a scowling papier mache image of II Duce to a tawdry effigy of Christ adorned with trinkets by Italy's praying poor. Back in the U.S., Blume spent two years pondering what he had seen, the next three years painting the vivid, swarming detail of The Eternal City with its popeyed Mussolini...