Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nancy Barrow of Manhasset, L. I., has been awarded the Captain Jonathan Fay Prize for the member of the class who "by scholarship, conduct and character has shown evidence of the greatest promise...
...number of honors candidates increased decisively, and Manuel Quezon, then only leader of the Philippine Senate, asked for his country's independence at a Union debate. John Chase was awarded the Burr Scholarship, symbolic of athletic and scholastic leadership. The favored...
...tanned, T-shirted undergraduates sang Pusey's thoughts returned to his first year in Cambridge twenty-nine years ago, when he had come to Harvard from the public schools of Council Bluffs, low a, on a Charles Eliot Perkins scholarship. He had found the Boston museums, particularly Mrs. Jack Gardiner's, fascinating, and had been more interested in "running around Boston than in student activities. "Then, too," Pusey recalls, "I didn't take much part in College life because I was pretty hard bitten with Harvard indifference." He lived in Gore Hall, then a freshman dormitory, and gathered a group...
...Those robes have the same number of buttons (one large, six small) as they always had, and there are the same narrow belts ("narrowies") for the young boys and the same "broadies" for the older ones. When a boy becomes a "Grecian," i.e., gets ready to try for a scholarship to a university, he gets 14 large buttons and a coat with upturned velvet cuffs. The coats have yellow linings that date back to 1683, when the "lynnings . . . as well as ye petticoats" were dyed to discourage vermin...
...solve the problem on a short-run basis, the Alumni Fund has earmarked any surplus over its '52-'53 goal of $600,000 for scholarship endowment...