Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second matter recommends itself to those interested in sociology. The work done particularly by graduate students, is generally of high caliber. Yet, unlike most departments, Sociology has little or no opportunity to attract brilliant students with scholarships and fellowships or to forward useful work already in progress. Attention should be directed to diverting some of the influx of graduate scholarship funds into sociological channels...
Harold Palmer, Jr., of Scarsdale, N. Y., a Freshman in Harvard College, has been awarded the historic Pennoyer Scholarship, one of the oldest foundations at Harvard for undergraduates of high scholastic standing. Palmer is a graduate of Hotchkiss School...
...scholarship was established in 1670 by William Pennoyer, a London merchant, who bequeathed part of the revenue of a farm in Norfolk, England, to Harvard College. Pennoyer's will stipulated that "Two fellows and two scholars for ever shalbe maintained and brought up in the colledge ... of which one ... may be of the lyne or posterity of ... Robert Pennoyer, ... and the other of the Newhaven Colony." For two and a quarter centuries, Harvard received the rent from the Pennoyer farm. The estate was sold in 1897, and Harvard's share of the proceeds now supports two undergraduate scholarships...
Royal Sommer Schaaf '39, of Newark, has been awarded the Edwards Whitaker Prize Scholarship, given annually at mid-years to the Freshman "who shows the most outstanding scholastic ability and intellectual promise as indicated by distinction in studies and general achievement...
...state of railroads, of telephones, of law or even of politics. As the Board of Trustees of Johns Hopkins University, it was their solemn duty to approve a plan of campaign which, when launched next week, will serve notice on the nation that its pioneer stronghold of creative scholarship is threatened not with extinction but with what is worse for the repository of a great tradition - a slow, humiliating decline into lacklustre mediocrity...