Word: guggenheim
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Natalie Price Guggenheim, 18, of Roslyn, L. I., daughter of Copper Tycoon Edmond A. Guggenheim; and Thomas M. Gorman, 27, of Port Washington, L. I., real estate broker, son of a station agent; secretly, three weeks ago, in Great Neck, L. I. Last week Mrs. Gorman sailed for France with her parents. Mr. Gorman stayed home...
Among the 88 scholars, authors, and artists who have just been granted fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation are four Harvard professors, two of whom have received their initial awards, and the other two reappointments to previous fellowships...
...Conant '15, assistant professor of Architecture, has been reappointed to continue the restoration of the Abby Church of Cluny under the joint auspices of the Guggenheim Foundation and the Medieval Academy of America. The work of Professor W. J. Luyten in astronomy is also recognized. He is selected to continue the taking of photographs of the southern sky with the Bruce telescope of the Harvard University Observatory at Mazelspoort, South Africa. His plates will be compared with similar ones taken about 1900 to obtain information concerning the numbers, velocities, and intrinsic brightnesses of the stars in the neighborhood...
...foundation was established in 1925 by former United States Senator and Mrs. Simon Guggenheim in memory of a son, to "improve the quality of education and the practice of the arts and professions in the United States, to foster research, and to provide for the cause of international understanding...
...type of publication made possible by these awards is just as vital to Harvard, the college of Liberal Arts, as the aeronautical experiments carried on further down the river by means of the Guggenheim Foundation. Indeed, the resemblance is far deeper than this mere similarity of proportion, since the modern study of the humanities is really in the scientific manner. The archaeologist, the philologist, the historian must be quite as definitely and concretely trained in his own work as the student of chemical research is in his, and, what is more important, must be nearly as well equipped financially...