Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Announcement of the four winners of the Harvard Club of Boston Scholarships, and the winner of the Charles Sumner Scholarship--formerly known as the Charles Sumner Bird Scholarship--were made recently, and the five men named will enter the University as members of the Freshman class this fall...
Those winning the Harvard Club Scholarship are: J. R. Graham 30 West Roxbury, who prepared at the Roxbury Latin School; A. R. Maynard '30 of South Sudbury, Weston High School: F. E. Nugent '30, Allston, who was graduated last spring from Brighton High; and R. S. Smethurst '30, who comes from Marblehead and prepared for college at the local high school...
...Sumner Scholarship, donated by Charles Sumner Bird '77 was won this year by L. E. Belknap '30 of Beverly, a graduate of the Beverly High School...
...fell to supplying newpapers with literary parodies and burlesques, applying to his accumulation of old-world scholarship a shrewd and lively buffoonery, that evoked (at first) sniffs in England, amusement in Canada, guffaws in the U. S. He made marionettes of A, B and C in the arithmetic textbooks, pulling the strings with his left hand while he thumbed trade reports with his right. Between lectures on political science he cried out for laughing social philosophers, showing that, while Cardinal Newman had only asked for light, Charles Dickens had given it, and brazenly declaring that he would rather have written...
...quietly, she had won the woman's championship of the U. S. She had now reached full growth - 142 pounds, 5 ft. 7. It was time for her to go to college - the University of California. In her first year she was an honor student and won a scholarship for "excellence in all studies," but she managed to play tennis three times a week, summer and winter. She specialized in art courses; "Pop" Fuller had stimulated her interest in drawing; he owned some good pictures and took her every year to the exhibition of the Bohemian Club...