Word: scholarship
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There were 40 priests in the first class in 1889. Today, after 59 years, coed "C.U."* stands out in scholarship among the 167 U.S. Catholic universities and colleges the way Notre Dame stands out in sports. Its enrollment is bulging: 4,182 students in winter, an even more influential summer school of 3,000 priests, nuns and teachers from all over the U.S. Last week the rector announced a $1,250,000 expansion of the 142-acre C.U. campus...
After two years of undistinguished scholarship but steady social progress, Evelyn was sent down without his degree. Like Paul Pennyfeather, Evelyn went to teach in a school for backward boys...
...excitable and fiercely mustachioed, was the son of an Italian painter of miniatures who abandoned his family soon after Ar-rigo's birth. His mother, a Polish countess, set him studying to become a musician. At 19, his cantata Le Sorelle d'Italia won him a traveling scholarship. On his way home from Paris he traveled through Poland and Germany and picked up some heretical ideas that soon got him in hot water at home. Sample: he wrote a poem calling for a composer who could restore the glory of Italian music, "that altar, soiled like the wall...
...further awards for study at Cambridge University, England were announced. The Lionel De Jersey Studentship for study at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and the Lieutenant Charles Henry Fiske 3rd Scholarship at Trinity College, both given in memory of men killed in World War I, were presented to Justin Edgerton Gale of Andover and Kirkland House, and Richard Paradise of Quincy and Eliot House. Gale is the present number five oar on the varsity crew...
Limited to men under 25 years of age, Junior Fellowships are awarded on the basis of the individual's promise of notable contribution to knowledge. Those chosen will be given complete freedom from academic regulations for degrees in order to devote all their time to productive scholarship...