Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...forty-seven years of age, and famous throughout Latin America for his works on literary, political and economic topics. He is the possessor of one of the finest private libraries in the world, and a member of the Brazilian Academy and other learned societies. Moreover, in addition to his scholarship, he has had wide experience in political and diplomatic life, both in Latin America and in Europe, having served as Minister Plenipotentiary of Brazil in Venezuela, Peru, Belgium, and in Sweden, and occupied other important offices. He is also familiar with the United States, where he lectured in the winter...
...annual report of the Rhodes scholarship trust, which has just been issued, contains a statement giving the young American Rhodes scholars at Oxford credit for filling well an important place in the life and work of the ancient university. There are 175 scholarship holders, about one-fourteenth of the whole student body, a number that offers abundant opportunity for influence on both sides...
Fifty-two students won a place in the First Group of Scholars; of these eighteen received honorary scholarships; thirty-three, scholarships with stipend. In the academic year 1911-12 forty-eight students won a place in the First Group of Scholars; thirteen, including the holder of the Jacob Wendell Scholarship (given to the student most distinguished in the work of the Freshman year, irrespective of his financial need) received honorary scholarships; thirty-five, scholarships with stipend...
...will be paid for a teacher of English. A similar position is offered at North China College near Peking, this latter institution also desiring a man to act as private secretary and to help in college athletics and music. All three of these positions, while not demanding finished scholarship, will require a high standard of attainment, and by giving a man a field for the exercise of his best efforts, will draw him close to the fast developing life of the new China...
...from April 27, 1914, in place of assistant Dean Yeomans, resigned; that assistant Professor Lawrence J. Henderson '98 be appointed the Professor from Harvard University for the second half of the year 1914-15 under the interchange agreement between the University and the Western colleges; that the Ricardo Price Scholarship for 1914-15 be assigned to William C. Clark...