Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another came to us via a Carnegie Traveling Fellowship and a job under John Winant at the International Labor office in Geneva; one prepared at college for a diplomatic career; another ran a hospital clinic in New York for four years; two were on the staff of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and two were analysts for Standard Statistics before they came to TIME . . . One (a graduate economist) researched for the OPA in Washington-and one was a reporter in Europe from the Austrian Anschluss to the Polish invasion. Another came to us from the Sunday Express of Johannesburg...
Born in Japan of missionary parents, Dr. Reischauer came to Harvard as a graduate of Oberlin College. Two years of intensive study in the history of Far Eastern languages won him a Fellowship from the Harvard Yenching Institute, and the opportunity for further research in Paris, Tokyo, and Peking. It was during this period that he accumulated the bulk of his truly gargantuan store of knowledge, not of Far Eastern history alone, but also of the dark and tortuous workings of the Oriental mind. At the same time, the student of history had a unique opportunity of watching history...
...There is no special treatment for alcoholism. Some passionate or sociable drunkards can be weaned by a psychiatrist. Some become religious converts, join revival and temperance groups like Alcoholics Anonymous, a proselytizing fellowship of 6,000 ex-alcoholics. Others can be conditioned to vomit at the mere sight of liquor (TIME, April...
...stop there: he saw the thing through to a finish. The cabbie claimed it had taken Sheridan 14 minutes to bid a lady friend goodby; Sheridan clocked himself at approximately three minutes. While the Hacker's Board of Review deliberated the matter, a Philadelphia "Democratic Fellowship Club" sent Sheridan 20? "in sympathy . . . and [to] save Strickland, the taxi driver, from losing his license." The Board of Review's finding: the cabbie had overcharged, whether Sheridan had taken 14 minutes or not. Penalty: ten-day suspension of his license...
After receiving a Master's degree in Music here in 1939, French was awarded a John Harvard Traveling Fellowship, but the war prevented him from leaving this country. Instead he became Teaching Fellow and Tutor in Music, and for the last year has been on leave of absence from the Society of Fellows to serve in the Dean's office. He has also been serving as assistant to the Senior Tutor in Lowell House and as Freshman adviser during the present year...