Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...results of the first-year scholarship examinations, which were held on January 5, were announced yesterday at the Law School. Twenty-nine scholarships have been awarded to first-year Law School men. They make up a total of over $12,000. Very few of these scholarships carry a stipend covering the tuition of $400, but the deficit is made up by the Law School...
McGovern, who is concentrating in the study of Government, won the Baldwin Prize for the best thesis on the subject of municipal government last year. He is the holder of the Charles Joseph. Bonaparte Scholarship given to the Senior in Harvard having the highest academic standing in the Department of Government. He was elected to the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in the fall elections this year. In the spring of 1928 McGovern won the Harvard division of the New York Times Current. Events Contest...
When Abnormal Psychology arrived at Harvard, the idea was entertained that its function was to minister to the undergraduate body; to dissolve its woes and anxieties and appease its truancies, and thus to diminish the incidence of depression and suicide and further sound scholarship. When it was understood that Dr. Shaw of the Department of Hygiene was competently fulfilling this office, black hints were circulated to the effect that the new group was about to conduct a systematic investigation of certain enigmatical obsessions prevalent in the Faculty. This notion was dismissed, however, when the appendage to the department of Psychology...
...other oriental languages, in which he was himself a noted scholar. He adopted the thrifty expedient of having a student translate the Old Testament from Hebrew into Greek at morning prayers, and the New Testament from English into Greek at evening prayers, so as to combine piety and scholarship. But he did much else than teach. The College was supported largely by a "country rate" laid by the General Court in the towns, whose tax-collectors sometimes needed a personal visit before they would "come across...
...Taylor is the brilliant and scholarship-loving lawyer who, after triumphing in the textile and other businesses; became last January one of the triumvirate chosen to succeed the late Judge Gary as rulers of U. S. Steel (see p. 26). The other two: John Pierpont Morgan, James Augustine Farrell...