Word: funding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some 550 of them living today of the 608 who have gone to and returned from Oxford since 1904. A question about them had been raised by Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher, warden of New College, Oxford, lately Government education minister and for many years a trustee of the Rhodes Fund. The question had been relayed by Professor J. C. Beaty, traveling fellow of Columbia University, after an interview with Mr. Fisher. The question seemed to be: Are Rhodes Scholars now "running the country" (i. e. the U. S.), as Cecil Rhodes hoped they would...
...Fisher, who thus phrased Mr. Rhodes' hope, did not believe that the Rhodes Scholars were "running" the U. S. He could, in fact, think of only one internationally known Rhodes Scholar?President Frank J. Aydelotte of Swarthmore (Pa.) College, U. S. secretary of the Rhodes Fund...
...Oscar fund Tom Mix. As he said later when grilled by the state's attorney, "If it isn't Tom Mix, who is it?" For sure enough there was either Will Rogers or Tom Mix riding the famous Tony and swinging the famous rope and telling fast ones while he shot buffaloes from nickles thrown by an Indian hanging in mid-air by his toes from the shoulders of a bandit. "Whee", quoth my roommate, "Whee". So then and there I decided to take him to commencement...
...work which the club will sing at the annual Symphony Hall Pension Fund Concert in the spring will be "Le Roi David" a dramatic psalm by the French composer Arthur Honegger...
...Harvard there is a student loan fund of a sort, though obsecure and difficult of access to the uninitiated. The tuition at Harvard is already high enough in comparison with state financed universities and many smaller privately endowed colleges, to make such a fund indispensable to the man characterized by Dean Jervey of Columbia as "the man with brains and character but without means". The tremendous increase in the number of young people desirous of a university education makes admission requirements a necessity, but a high tuition covering expenses should not be included among such restrictions. Tuition fees should gradually...