Word: guggenheimer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus does Daniel Guggenheim turn from the bowels of the earth to the heights of the heavens to do for the air what his family has done for the ground...
...foundation of a College of Aeronautics,* "has long been identified with exploration beneath the earth. We have tried to assist in developments which would make mining more safe as well as more profitable and therefore of the greatest economic value. I have learned through my son, Harry F. Guggenheim, who was one of the first civilians to enter aviation and was a naval aviator overseas during the World War, of the plans of New York University to establish a School of Aeronautics in its College of Engineering...
...Percival Bailey, S.B., Ph.D., M.D., Instructor in Surgery at the University Medical School and a physician at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital has been awarded one of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowships for the year 1925-26 it was announced by the trustees of the foundation last night...
...John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation was recently organized by former U. S. Senator and Mrs. Simon Guggenheim of New York City as a memorial to a son who died April 26, 1922. It has an endowment, received from Senator Guggenheim, of $3,000,000. The fellowships awarded by the Foundation provide stipends usually of $2500 a year...
...students, and they were a picturesque reflection of the nineteenth century's belief in political and social salvation through mass schooling and the dissemination of knowledge. But while the dissemination of knowledge has done a great deal it has not done all that was hoped for it. The Guggenheim scholarships are designed not for the students but for the study they may do, and they reflect the awakening suspicion that it is not the dissemination but the getting of knowledge that demands our attention...