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...special scholarship at Harvard if his name is Murphy or Baxendale; if he was descended from Lady Ann Mowlson, Greek parents or certain gentlemen named Reed, Holyoke, Hudson, Borden, Anderson, Bright, Downer, Haven and Pennoyer; if he lives along the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. in Iowa; or if he was once a newsboy. He may get a scholarship at Princeton or University of Pennsylvania if his father worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad, at Tulane if his grandfather fought in the Confederate Army, at Dartmouth if he is "a religious man from Missouri...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Collegians' Baedeker | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

...Lady Mowlson scholarship, established in 1643 and the oldest in the college, was awarded to Daniel M. Pearce, Jr. '42 of Ripley, Tennesses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EIGHT STUDENTS GIVEN SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...Lady Mowlson scholarship, established in 1643, the oldest scholarship in the College, to Albert C. Howell '41, of Sandy Hook, New Jersey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 206 SCHOLARSHIPS ARE ANNOUNCED BY THE CORPORATION | 11/8/1938 | See Source »

...Lady Mowlson scholarship, established in 1643, the oldest in the College, awarded to William C. Knox Jr. '38, Winchester, Tennessee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOUR HISTORICAL OLD AWARDS ARE GIVEN OUT | 11/10/1937 | See Source »

...College, which should also bear the Harvard seal, to testify to the equivalence of the degrees granted by the two institutions. Other rights were also granted by Harvard. Then in June, 1893, President Eliot suggested for the name of the proposed college that of Ann Radcliffe, Lady Mowlson, who in 1643 had provided a scholarship and was the first woman to make a gift to Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WILL CELEBRATE SEMI-CENTENNIAL FRIDAY MORNING | 5/29/1929 | See Source »

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