Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...student body could have been constructed as neatly as some of the seminars. But its development was haphazard. At first, there were 30 or so Littauer and Administration fellows, who shared their seminars with Arts and Sciences graduate students. When the war came, Littauer watched most of its Fellowship material quickly drafted. Some suggested the school close its doors for the duration, and others toyed with the ideas of turning Littauer into a military training schol. But Dean Williams was stubbornly determined to keep his school civilian. In a sudden and drastic change in admissions policy, Williams looked abroad...
...Purcell lunched with Robert V. Pound, then on leave from a Harvard Junior Fellowship, and H. C. Torrey, on leave from Rutgers. During the conversation, Purcell mentioned the idea he was mulling over. Briefly it involved measuring the forces at work inside atoms, taking advantage of the fact that most nuclei act as if they are extremely small, rapidly spinning bar magnets. "The only difficulty to be solved was that no one knew whether the extremely feeble effect of these magnets in ordinary substances could actually be detected...
Miller, author of "The Transcendentalists" and two books on New England thought, was given a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1936. He teaches Humanities III besides his courses in American literature. White, who gives the second half of Humanities 5 and three courses in Philosophy, is the author of "Origins of Dewey's Instrumentalism...
...seat on the A.F.L. Executive Council by hammering at Lewis' opposition to the Taft-Hartley law provision requiring labor leaders to take a non-Communist oath. In one of the few public squelches Lewis has ever suffered, Meany charged that the mineworkers' boss had "made a fellowship" with "all the . . . stinking American-haters who love Moscow...
More experienced Fellows; then, are needed. But how can the Fellowship renaissance come about? Some have suggested slicing the number of Littauer Fellowships to raise the ante for each one. This is a neat bit of budget juggling, precisely what the Nieman Foundation tried when it was caught in the inflationary vise...