Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: I won a scholarship at "Miss Spence's School for Girls" [TIME, Feb. 3] and was educated there from 1910-17. After graduating I went back to teach Latin, English and History, thereby paying for my tuition at "swankless" Barnard...
...whose efforts culminated last sum mer in the adoption of the centimetre-gram-second system of units by the Inter national Electrotechnical Commission. First U. S. scientist to receive the Mascart Medal, venerable Dr. Kennelly hoped its bestowal would mark a closer liaison be tween U. S. and French scholarship. Frank Walker Caldwell, 46, Hamilton Standard Propeller Co. engineer; the Sylvanus Albert Reed Award of the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences ($250 and certificate) : for his development of controllable pitch and constant speed propellers ("gear shift of the air"). Arthur Cutts Willard, 58, president of the University of Illinois...
...Kitty should not go on forever, He is as thoroughly Harvard as "Veritas", the Holden Chapel, or the fireplaces in Holworthy Hall, and to generations of students at this university Shakspere is not so much the greatest poet of the ages as he is the subject of Kittredge's scholarship...
...Times", Harvard University is preparing for the celebration of the completion of three hundred years of its history. While the important role which the American university plays in our national life will be made evident, the assembling of distinguished scholars from many countries will demonstrate the international character of scholarship and "commemorate the extension" to this continent of the ancient world" of learning"--a message we are prone to forget. For a month or more next Autumn Harvard University itself will be "on view" to the general public, affording opportunity to all who are interested to become better acquainted with...
...measure of greatness. I think it will probably be reckoned great by posterity. It has no rational foundation, being merely one man's way of viewing things: so much of experience admitted and no more. . . ." Other professors of philosophy gave less qualified praise, saluted Santayana's scholarship, the fascination of his style, suggested that no such exquisite philosophical literature had ever been composed...