Word: granting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When, in 1948, the time came to fill the newly created Zemurry-Stone Chair, the occupant had to be picked with especial care for she (the grant specified a female) would be the first woman professor in Harvard's history. The lady chosen had to be both outstanding in her field and vigorous enough to make her way in a strictly masculine universe. In both ways the choice of Helen Maud Cam was singularly fortunate, for besides being a ranking medieval historian, Miss Cam, in her late sixties, has more of an intellectual bounce and a livelier guffaw than most...
This report, released last January, was prepared by representatives of the preparatory and university "Big Threes"--Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Exeter, Andover and Lawrenceville. The study group, set up in the fall of 1951 by a grant from the Ford Foundation for the Advancement of Education, urged extensive integration of secondary and higher education land suggested a seven-year program for the "superior student...
...20th century America, fashions in art have altered just as often and drastically as fashions in women's dress. Cocks of the walk in the 1930s were three Midwestern artists who are scarcely mentioned today: Grant Wood, John Steuart Curry and Thomas Hart Benton. Their paintings (opposite and overleaf), included in a current retrospective show at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, are nostalgic reminders of a vanished era in recent U.S. history...
...effort he outgrew that kind of work, although he never quite shook the slavishness to subject matter that is its mark. But Curry did have the boldness to conceive a Cineramic view of the land he loved. At the height of his fame, he called Wisconsin Landscape "my greatest." Grant Wood, like Benton, sowed some Midwestern oats in Paris. There he sported shocking pink whiskers and a Basque beret, painted hazy, impressionistic canvases. Back home in his native Iowa, he mainly taught art for a living. He shaved his round face smooth, and assumed an exterior as mild...
Scholarships were awarded to 75 students in last year's entering class and to a total of 223 students throughout the School. More will be given this year, and the Law School will also grant between $65,000 and $70,000 to students through loans...