Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another specific to its broad-gauge plans for assisting U.S. schools and colleges. On top of the $1,200,000 college scholarship program for 16½-year-olds (TIME, April 30), the foundation's Fund for the Advancement of Education announced last week a new $2,280,000 fellowship program for young college teachers. Purpose of the program: to help young instructors pay for extra training, at the same time help small colleges keep young teachers on their staffs whom they might not otherwise be able to afford...
...fellowship (salary plus travel expenses and tuition), a teacher must have more on his mind than merely earning his Ph.D. He must submit a plan of study for improving his teaching and for exploring the aims and methods of college courses. The big hope behind the program, says Clarence H. Faust, former Stanford University dean and president of the new fund, is not only to help the colleges financially, but to be "of long-term service to them in the improvement of undergraduate teaching...
...first lecture is entitled "The World Crisis and the Only Solution." The lectures, sponsored by the Christian Fellowship, are open to the public...
...Other fellowship awards were given to Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government, for studies on the conflict of civilliberties and the doctrine of "reason of state," to Walter L. Hughes, assistant professor of Physical Chemistry, for his research on the specific groupings of purified proteins; and to Ruth N. Hubbard, research fellow, for studies in the biochemistry of human vision...
...Foundation was established 26 years ago as a memorial to the late U.S. Senator Simon Guggenheim's son. It is intended to further the work of "scholars and creative workers in the arts who have demonstrated high ability." This year's fellowship awards total...