Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This brain trust met at a conference of the New Education Fellowship, 26-year-old international organization of Progressive Educators, convening for the first time in the Western Hemisphere. Ann Arbor, bright with intense sunshine and the chatter of 1,800 delegates from 22 nations, had a Geneva flavor. At the last moment the Fellowship learned that its president, Finland's Laurin Zilliacus, had been detained. He cabled enigmatically from Finland: LEAVING FOR THE FRONT. . . . STILL BELIEVE IN DEMOCRACY...
...first account from London said that the Duke had met Hess at the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, that Hess had planned to approach him because before the war he was a member of the Anglo-German Fellowship. The Duke's younger brother, also a flier, had worked in Nazi labor camps, married the strong-through-joy Hon. Prunella Stack, physical culturist and Nazi favorite...
...syntheses of material are characterized by an unusual aesthetic judgment and a fresh intellectual scrutiny. He possesses an extraordinary ability to effect a vital communication in the classroom. He is certainly outstanding among Harvard teachers for his interest in his students' ideas; and a feeling for the true intellectual fellowship which ought to prevail in a university is indicated by his availability and eagerness for friendly discussion outside of class...
...orchestra. Closing the program are two works by Harvard musicians, Jan LaRue's Concertino for Clarinet and Orchestra, with the composer as soloist, and Professor Ballantine's Variations on "Mary Had a Little Lamb." Jan LaRue, a music concentrator, graduated from Harvard last year and is now on a fellowship at Princeton, where the Concertino was written. Professor Ballantine's by now popular and well-known Variations on "Mary Had a Little Lamb" take the familiar nursery-rhyme and cleverly bandy it about in the style of composers like Schubert, Tchaikowski, MacDowell, and Wagner...
Awards for travel and study this summer are: Rogers fellowship to Sumner Willard, teaching fellow in Romance Languages; Charles Dexter scholarships in English to Meyer H. Abrams, instructor in English, Charles W. Dunn, teach- ing fellow in English, Branford P. Millar, teaching fellow in English, Robert R. Rogers, teaching fellow in English, Outo E. Schoen-Rene, who was an instructor in English last year, and Claude M. Simpson, Jr., instructor in English; Sheldon fellowship to Irving M. London...