Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prevailing attitude towards public service held by the average college graduate or senior student in America at the time. It is significant that within the past ten days that same campus newspaper has given front page space to the announcement of the current competition for 30 graduate scholarship appointments to the Federal Government internship training program of the National Institute of Public Affairs at Washington. In the same issue, that eminent college daily editorialized on the immense value of the program and its appeal to college men of today...
...President to relieve me of my double administrative burden, which I have had for five years, was made most regretfully, since I am heartily in sympathy with the President's policies and have enjoyed my share in carrying them out. However, my need for more time for scholarship and teaching have made it impossible...
...regret the refusal of the University to accept the Hanfstaengl offer of a Munich Scholarship. The petty question of manners and formality is not at all revelant to the actual issue of the case: namely, whether or not student would derive benefit from such European study...
...fact that the University would act as a medium between the donor and the selected student does not imply credence in the political beliefs of Germany any more than the granting of a Harvard scholarship to a resident of Alabama implies support of Negro suppression in southern United States. And the student's acceptance of the scholarship neither entails any obligation to Herr Hanfstaengl nor evinces approval of his character. This scholarship is an opportunity for intimate investigation into the thoughts and customs of Europe; and to construe any other meaning is to slander the student's intelligence. The very...
...refusal of the University to accept this scholarship is not upholding the tenets of liberalism, except in a very narrow sense; the refusal is doing nothing in itself to mitigate any probable abuses of scholastic facilities in Germany; but it does any to some student of limited means the opportunity to investigate those "abuses" for himself. Ernst W. Mueller...