Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John C. Pittenger '51, of Nottingham, Pa., and Dunster House, has won the Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship for a year's study in any nation of the British Commonwealth, Dean Bender announced today...
...accordance with these beliefs, he has set up a $1,000,000 fellowship program to give young scholars in the humanities a chance they rarely get today. For the university, he has picked his appointments well (among them: Novelist Robert Penn Warren, Chemist John G. Kirkwood, Political Scientist James W. Fesler). He has even reached down to the secondary schools, which he regards as the weakest link in the educational chain. His M.A. for teachers is an attempt to give schoolmen courses-not just in pedagogy, of which they often have too much, but also in the stuff and substance...
Each applicant must submit a statement of not more than 1500 words explained what he proposes 'to do if awarded fellowship...
...fellowship program is administer by a committee of 16 college and university presidents and deans. Dean Kepper of the School of Education is the executive secretary of the committee...
...committee has stated that it presents younger applicants, but it has not to any limits on age or rank it hopes that vacancies created next year by the fellowship will be filled by men and women uncertain of employment...