Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Ricardo Prize Scholarship in economics for the year 1915-16 has been awarded to William Burke Belknap 2G. (Yale '08), of Louisville, Kentucky, on recommendation of the Department of Economics. The award is based on a competitive examination consisting of an essay written on an assigned subject without any previous preparation. The subject of Belknap's essay, which was chosen from a list of twenty offered, was "The Economies of Combination." The scholarship is one of $350, and the incumbent is expected to carry on his studies under the supervision of the Department of Economics...
...events have just occurred which in conjunction seem significant. One is the adoption by Yale of the Harvard system of entrance examinations begun here four years ago. The other is the offering of a scholarship trophy by Phi Beta Kappa to the preparatory school with the best record of examination entrants...
...believe it to be the only one which accords with the principle of academic freedom. I hope the time will come when you and your colleagues in Germany will recognize that this course is the only right one: and that it is essential to the cause of universal scholarship and human progress that scholars should associate together again on friendly terms, without regard to national conflicts that have occurred. Very truly yours, A. LAWRENCE LOWELL...
...Scholarships for 1915-16 were awarded as follows: Hilton Scholarship to Thorndike Saville; Joseph Eveleth Scholarships to G. W. Crow and B. P. Hamilton; Henry Weidemann Locke Scholarship to W. Haynes...
William Raymond Taylor, a Senior in the University of North Carolina was awarded the Charles Elliott Perkins Graduate Scholarship, for work in the Graduate School. The Princeton Fellowship was awarded to Charles Clifton McCoy, a senior at Princeton, for work in the Medical School. Harold A. Bruner, a senior in Drake University was awarded the James A. Rumrill Graduate Scholarship for work in the Law School. William T. Read of the University of Texas was awarded the Special Fellowship in Chemistry...