Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whom Raleigh was Public Enemy No. 1, called him various guttural equivalents, such as "Guatteral." However they spelled Raleigh's name, Englishmen of his Jay and ever after knew it stood for greatness. Author Thompson's Sir Walter Ralegh is a beautiful biographical job, in which scholarship and humanity have for once gone hand in hand...
Last week President Valentine prepared to spend some of Rochester's millions for undergraduates with plenty of personality. He offered 120 students of "definite intellectual promise" a $500 scholarship apiece, enough to cover tuition and residence in the college dormitories. To manage his roundup, President Valentine engaged Frederick Lawson Hovde, a fellow Rhodes Scholar, who will hold an appointment in the chemistry department, spend most of his time sounding preparatory school masters for material, interviewing scholarship candidates. An ardent pole-vaulter, All-Conference quarterback when he went to University of Minnesota in 1925-29, Frederick Hovde was the third...
Explained President Valentine: "In their terms and objectives the Rochester Prize Scholarships may be compared . . . with the Rhodes Scholarships. No scholarship examination will be set ... but the Committee may ask candidates to take certain aptitude tests. ... In addition to intellectual abilities the Committee . . . will demand qualities of high character, industry and maturity of purpose. . . . The Rochester Prize Scholarships should enhance the cosmopolitan character of the student body and its mature and effective student leadership...
...grandfather was the late Captain John Evans Gorman. Inez Gorman's father left the sea for music, studied at the New England Conservatory, went on to make a serious career of teaching, now supervises public school music in Adams, Mass. When she was able to get a scholarship at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music, Inez Gorman went there as a matter of course. When she went to St. Louis to sing minor roles with the Municipal Opera, she met James Stagliano, first horn player in the St. Louis Symphony. Year ago she became his wife...
...reassuring: "I am just going out to play footer. I am getting on very well. I have not made many enimas, much love." From his first school Antony went on to Eton, where he spent six happy years, getting into scrapes, making numerous friends, winning prizes for both scholarship and athletics. Boxing was his principal sport...