Word: guggenheimer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cross at crosswords, querulous at questions, the public is now invited to play a game which is allegedly neither elevating nor depressing. It used to be called "Categories," but was renamed "Guggenheim" to make it more popular or something.* Authorities agree it is a safe game at mixed parties. The chief requirements for play, besides a "Guggenheim" book, are pencils, paper, patiences...
...John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced by name the scholarly beneficiaries of its munificence, to the 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...
...away is the day when a Francis Bacon could take "all knowledge" for his "province" and not be speedily committed to a private hospital. What, for example, could even semi-encyclopaedic newsgatherers make of "the purification of colloids by electro-dialysis," the feat which Guggenheim money will aid Dr. Richard Bradfield, soil professor at the University of Missouri to accomplish? Dr. William Henry Eyster's project, at the University of Maine, to study "the physiology of chloroplastid pigments," was equally inscrutable. And why should Dr. Ralph Erskine Cleland of Goucher College be given money to pry into "the chromosome...
Raphael Demos, Ph.D., '19, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, has been awarded one of the John Simon Guggenheim fellowships for 1927-28. He will study the philosophy of evolution and social philosophy in France...
...John Simon Cuggenheim Memorial Foundation has a capital fund of $3,5000,000, the gift of Senator and Mrs. Guggenheim. The entire income totalling $143,000, is devoted to the award of Fellowships to scholars and artists who have demonstrated unusual capacity for productive scholarship or remarkable creative ability. The stipend is usually $2500 and offers, opportunity to carry on research and creative work abroad. For he 1927-28 grants 600 applications were received...