Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brandeis research fellowship, awarded to a person specially invited by the Faculty of Law to pursue research, to Ralph V. Rogers, of Boston, Mass.; LL.B. Harvard...
...scientist, scholar, writer or artist who is awarded one, a Guggenheim Fellowship usually means a year of extracurricular leisure to work unhurriedly on a pet project. But last week the Guggenheim Foundation, awarding 82 fellowships for the coming year, found it necessary to warn its fellows that this is a year when leisure cannot be guaranteed; its awards are subject to interruption for calls to Government service. Example: Stanford University's Dr. Merrill Kelley Bennett, who went to Honolulu last summer as a Guggenheim fellow to study food, wound up as a statistician in the Food Control office, keeping...
Among these, as might be expected, is the thrill of finding a fellow enthusiast in a world which includes so many "tin-ears." It's a gratifying part of any hobby, of course, and as anyone with a hobby will attest, a bond of fellowship is at once created. The two of you can sit up all night listening to records and comparing tastes, arguing as often as you agree. And usually that first feeling of kinship carries over when, after several hours, you begin to talk about something else...
Applications for each Fellowship have always far exceeded the number of candidates that could be chosen. The committee choosing the fellows thus expects that this year, despite the war, a representative selection will still be possible...
Born in New York, he is the only, person in Harvard history to have won both the Garrison prize in Poetry and the Bowdoin prize in prose composition. He made Phi Beta Kappa and was graduated Summa Cum Lauda. In the next year he received a Henry fellowship, a scholarship to Oxford some-what akin to the Rhodes scholarships...