Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...money will be used to further endow the fellowship Santayana established here in 1928. He willed most of his $125,000 to Boston relatives...
...Public Speaking Department. Its propensity to cut the Department to the bone illustrates a strange sense of proportion in budgeting money and instructors. For, with no more full time teachers than the Mongolian department, and fewer courses than Sanskrit, the Department must watch sadly while students enter the fellowship of educated men incapable of effective speech...
Recently, new honors have come to him in a rush: the Harriet Monroe Poetry Award at the University of Chicago, the Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets, and the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry at Harvard, where Cummings (who graduated in 1915) will give six lectures, beginning this week...
According to Coolidge, Davis immediately accepted, and Coolidge set about getting him a fellowship. A pharmaceutical company obliged with $3,000, but Davis had left even before he knew he won the fellowship. Davis put his life savings into the boat and provisions. The New Zealand government gave him $30 for expenses...
Claiming 20,000 members, BDJ stood foursquare for hiking, democracy, outdoor fellowship and against Communism. If not actually supported by Chancellor Adenauer's government, BDJ was benevolently regarded as a West German answer to the East zone's 2,000,000-strong Communist Freie Deutsche Jugend. It practiced direct action; it had a knack for breaking up Communist meetings and was expert at exposing the sheeplike West German businessmen who clandestinely supported the Reds as "just in case" insurance...