Word: fosterers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...extent of $143,000, for the coming year. Newspapers gave the item the prominence due to anything connected with the name of Simon Guggenheim, onetime U. S. Senator from Colorado (father of the memorialized John Simon Guggenheim, deceased 1922). They explained that the $3,500,000 foundation was to foster research work by young, productive U. S. scholars and artists; that some 600 such scholars applied for fellowships, this year 63 of them being rewarded. But the newspapers made no attempt to explain what the 63 lucky ones would now hurry off to do with their money...
...meals they thus pilfer, the checks they thus get cashed. It is no longer only the artist that is put under contract but his pen- children, who are copyrighted by the middleman. The Katzenjammer Kids sprang from a fertile organism called Rudolph Dirks, and have been signed by three foster-fathers since. The Republican elephant, Democratic donkey and Tammany tiger were originated-how lately and by whom? Answer: Th. Nast, 60 years...
...American undergraduate a post-war neurosis?" asks the Evening Post in announcing the offer. "Just what is responsible for the melancholia which seems to have invaded the campus today? Does modern education foster too much independent, unguided thinking...
...possible exception of the "Ten Guineas". The nod in the direction of George Ade is all well enough, but unnecessary. I am sure that Mr. Ade would not notice any plagiarism. Certainly the chemical explosion has been done before in every conceivable way and I cannot see that Mr. Foster's work is any great addition to the multitude. Mr. Jones' Choatesque drawing may be all very well, but I still think Maxfield Parrish is in no danger...
...Foster Damon '14, President of the New England Poetry Club, and assistant in English, will publish on or about April 1, his collection of poems, entitled, "Astrolabe". The book, published by Harper Brothers, comes after ten year's of effort. It is Mr. Damon's first book of collected verse. In 1917, Mr. Damon was chosen as one of the eight original Harvard poets. The other poets were E. E. Cummings '15, J. R. Dos Passos '18, Robert Hillyer '17, R. S. Mitchell '15, W. A. Norris '17, Dudley Poore '17, and Cuthoert Wright...