Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mile Run.--P. E. Anderson, LeB. R. Barker Jr., H. R. Kobes, R. M. Parker, J. W. Perkins, O. A. Schlaikjer, D. LeB. Sweeney, W. L. Tibbetts Jr., F. H. Tweedie, J. N. Watters...
...scholarship is to be established at the University in memory of the late Richard Perkins Parker '22, of Salem, by the gift of his friends, about 90 of whom have collectively contributed $3000 for this purpose...
...Parker, in whose memory the scholarship is to be established, was killed in an airplane accident near Paris on September 6, 1921. During his college career he served as assistant business manager of the Freshman Red Book and as an editor of the Lampoon, and also played on the second football team. For a year he was secretary of his class. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. George Swinnerton Parker...
...scholarship just established at the University in memory of Richard Perkins Parker '22 by the gift of his friends is a splendid tribute to a man who has left a living imprint on the sands of his college generation. And it is more than that. The intent of the gift is that it shall be awarded each year to a Junior who combines Parker's high qualities of character and ability. It is not a "need" scholarship; the yearly stipend is small as scholarships go, but its purpose and the spirit in which it has been given are in keeping...
...education for themselves. And in recent years through such scholarships as the Rhodes at Oxford and the Victor Chapman Memorial here at Harvard, students of unusual abilities are given the opportunity for study overseas. But it fittingly remains for the new gift in the name of Richard Parker to honor, as does the Gordon Brown scholarship at Yale, each year the rare combination of wide interests, high standards, intellectual ability, and fine balance. In an age of specialized mediocrity such a gift is more than welcome...