Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...undergraduate scholarship fund for students "who desire to study in the combined areas of cultural anthropology and psychology," has been established by the $68,778.47 gift of the estate of William Cabot Martin...
Sheldon Glueck, Roscoe Pound Professor of Law, who worked with Hooton on studies of delinquency, praised him: "Professor Hooton's untimely death comes as a great shock to all who knew him as a man of profound and fearless scholarship and delightful and original wit. Harvard and the world of anthropology have suffered a great loss...
Chambers, a resident of Grosse Pointe, Mich., will deliver the graduate English oration on "A Student Looks at Humane Scholarship." The Latin oration will be given by Cole, who is from Urbana, Ill. and Lowell House. Gwirtzman, of Rochester, N.Y. and Dunster House, will deliver the undergraduate English oration on "Education and the Silent Generation...
Zealots' Reproach. Born to a poor peasant 51 years ago in a remote Bihar village, Jaya Prakash Narayan never saw a trolley car until he was 19. When he won a government scholarship, the facts of Indian life crowded in on him all at once. He joined Gandhi's civil disobedience movement. Thirsty for learning but respecting Gandhi's boycott of the British-controlled universities, Narayan went to the U.S. to study. He worked his passage to California, got a job sorting fruit, began studying at Berkeley. During eight years in the U.S., he studied science...
Wallace McDonald '43, now an instructor at Williams College, will return here to succeed Shaplin in the scholarship office. Before going to Williams, he had served for four years as an assistant dean of the College and as a tutor in History and Literature...