Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this situation which prompted such organizations as the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Program and the National Science Foundation to offer lucrative grants for graduate study. Yet educators are coming to realize that one-year grants are not enough. The avowed purpose of the Wilson grants is to attract into graduate study students who would otherwise not have chosen it. But for the undergraduate who looks ahead, one year of security means very little. The result is that these grants attract few applicants who had not already planned on entering the academic profession and accepting the protracted hardships that often...
Francis W. Davis '10, inventor of power steering, has given $50,000 to establish a fellowship in honor of Lionel S. Marks, Gordon MacKay Professor of Mechanical Engineering, emeritus, who died enrolls to Mexico last Thursday...
...fellowship is modeled after England's 1851 Exposition Fellowship which brought Marks from Birmingham, England, to Cornell in 1892 for engineering studies...
...Littauer's most successful experiments, now well past the experimental stage, is its fellowship program in conservation and land use. In the four years since the plan's inauguration, more than twenty carefully selected employees of various state and federal conservation agencies have come to Littauer for a year's training and research and a Master of Public Administration degree. Almost all the Fellows had already been relatively far along the advancement scale in government service, with many years of actual field experience. Most have emerged from their year of study at Littauer to go back to government and assume...
Since the final Fellowship choices are made by Littauer officials largely on the basis of recommendations from the applicants' own agencies, an employee's selection for a Fellowship is usually a sign that he is regarded as a coming man in his department. Most of the Fellows come directly to Cambridge from work in field agencies, particularly in the Far West. But a year at Littauer may well mean eventual reassignment to Washington, the center of high policy-making positions. Even a $3,000 fellowship is likely to be a financial sacrifice for men with families, especially if they...