Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Primarily the "House" should have a good number of resident "Fellows" who are living in comfortable quarters and accomplishing great things in scholarship. These "Fellows" will be an inspiration to undergraduates who will see some of the rewards on scholastic accomplishment...
...three men, selected on a basis of versatility, character, and scholarship, will be exempt from all class requirements, examinations and fees. The awards will be made in June on a basis of the applicants' "interest in, devotion to, and promise of notable achievement in intellectual life...
...young Russian, no money in his pocket, trudged up the steps of the Moscow Conservatory and asked for a scholarship. Scholarships were scarce, they told him. There was just one left?and that for the double-bass. The boy hesitated, turned as if to go and then came back, asked if they would teach him the double-bass...
...ancestry: his grandfather was favorite in Napoleon's body guard at St. Helena, and had the grim duty of protecting the dead Little Corporal's heart from voracious rats. But Arthur was a sweet-faced choirboy, beloved mascot of his father's band, successful candidate for a Leipzig Mendelssohn scholarship. Returned to London, he wrote cantatas, oratorios, 56 hymns (among them Onward Christian Soldiers), and also popular lyrics (The Lost Chord), and operetta-burlesque (Cox and Box). Victoria smiled on him, the masses adored...
...about as we please concerning our studies in Cambridge," averred C. T. Hamton IL yesterday. Hamton is the holder of a Davidson Scholarship and has just come to this country from the English University. "If we do not like a lecture all we have to do is walk out and try another course," he continued. "The average student spends about three hours a day at classes and studies, while five hours a day spent in the pursuit of knowledge is all that could be asked of any member of the college. In America you are far too pressed for time...