Word: fod
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fifteen graduate students from eight states and Canada have received scholarships and fellowship awards from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences fod the present year totalling $5,625, the University announced today...
...eisteddfod (pronounced "eye-steth-fod") causes more stir in Wales than a heavyweight championship fight in the U. S. Wales' great annual eisteddfod is held in August, attracts every Welshman's attention, brings many Welsh-Americans across the Atlantic. Last August's eisteddfod took place at Machynlleth where Owain Glyn Dwr (Owen Glendower) became Prince of Wales in 1403. A specially built auditorium, accommodating about 12,000, houses each eisteddfod. Poets, orators, artists and singers compete. Audiences sit tensely, yell their applause. The winning team earns its town a place in history...
...college student, however, is expected to have a sufficient amount of brains and intellectual interest to master a subject without resort to armchair talks" or popular lecturing. If the Freshman is not treated from the first as a mature individual, capable of accepting responsibility and is nurtured upon spoon-fod knowledge, he will soon find college work too much for him when he encounters a professor who has no consideration for his "immaturity...