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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Announcement has recently been made of the John Simon Guggenheim Fellows for the year 1926 to 1927. An appropriation of $100,000 for the assistance of 37 young American scholars and artists has been made among whom are four Harvard teachers, giving the University the lead over all other Institutions in the number of Fellows chosen from its staff. The four Harvard men who have been given awards are Dr. Kenneth John Conant '15, Dr. Ralph Monroe Eaton Ph. D. '15, Dr. Edwin Crawford Kemble G. '17, and Dr. Walter Sliz...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOUR HARVARD TEACHERS WIN TRAVELLING AWARDS | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

...Effective College." The Association of American Colleges convened in Manhattan and devoted three days to discussion of "the effective college." Dr. Frank Aydelotte, President of Swarthmore College, made the main address. Dr. John H. Finley of the New York Times, Henry Allen Moe of the Guggenheim Foundation and Dean Herbert E. Hawkes of Columbia were other speakers. Dean Hawkes recommended to his large audience of college executives and professors "a detached, scholarly and impartial study of religion" for college students, a "clinic on creeds." He drew an analogy between instruction in religion and that in the fine arts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U. S. Colleges | 1/25/1926 | See Source »

Last year, Daniel Guggenheim, Manhattan copper man and banker, gave to promote society's future in the air, half a million of the dollars his family had dug from the bowels of the earth, the money going to help endow New York University's School of Aeronautics (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Earth to Air | 1/25/1926 | See Source »

Last week, Daniel Guggenheim announced another benefaction of the powers of the earth to the pioneers of the air. He wrote U.S. Secretary of Commerce Hoover that he had established a Fund for the Promotion of Aviation, with trustees "of eminence and competence," to assist civil aeronautic activities and cooperate with governmental ones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Earth to Air | 1/25/1926 | See Source »

...first the fund will be as much as Mr. Guggenheim gave last year, $500,000. He stands ready to supply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Earth to Air | 1/25/1926 | See Source »

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