Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Cambridge, "The Other Voice," and the play of the evening, "Prudence in Particular," by Rachel Barton Butler, a special student at Radcliffe. The latter is a three-act comedy of young married life in the Middle West. Miss Butler is the recipient this year of the MacDowell scholarship, awarded annually to the winner of a competition open to all playwrights in the United States, provided, first, that the contestant is unmarried and, second, that he or she is in need of money...
...Ricardo Prize Scholarship examination will be held in Upper Dane Hall on Wednesday, April 5, from 2 until 5 o'clock. The scholarship is valued at $350, and is open to anyone who is this year a member of the University, and who will next year be either a member of the Senior class, or of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Each candidate will write in the examination room an essay on a topic chosen by himself from a list not previously announced, in economics and political science. In addition, statements of previous studies, and any written work...
...following scholarships have been awarded for 1916-17: Henry Weidemann Locke Scholarship to W. D. Canan; Hilton Scholarship to T. R. Jones; Joseph Eveleth Scholarships to J. J. Connolly and to W. C. Sadler. The following appointments as assistants were made: In Classics, Thomas Lewis Kennedy; in Zoology, Leslie Clarence Dunn 1G., Dwight Elmer Minnich 3G., James Montrose Duncan Olmsted 1G.; as Austin Teaching Fellows; in Botany, Fred Campbell Meier 1G., Oran Levi Raber 2G.; in Zoology, Selig Hecht 2G., Alfred Clarence Redfield 3G., Arthur Calvin Walton 1G.; as instructors: in French, Neil Cole Arvin 3G., Hyme Loss 2G., Lester...
...last day for giving notice of intention to compete for the Sales Prize and the Jeremy Belknap Prize. The examination for the award of the Old Testament Prizes will take place on May 1. Notice must be given not later than May 15 by competitors for the Ricardo Prize Scholarship...
Whatever else one may think of Gilbert Murray's scholarship, he has, at least, taken advantage of a second modern opportunity, in that he has embodied, perhaps better than any other, the meaning of Hellenic culture for his own time. The mediaeval period, the Renaissance, the seventeenth century, each understood antiquity differently and found in it a different kind of inspiration. It remains for us to interpret the Classics to our contemporaries in contemporary terms, to demonstrate their perennial vitality by showing their relation to modern problems and fashions. We may not be willing, like the English scholar, to reduce...