Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This scholarship competition has no commercial affiliation, being entirely a personal matter with Cantor...
Doubtless no one could stop Mr. Warren from giving his money to whomever he pleased. We question, however, the propriety of Yale University accepting a bequest on terms which have all the car marks and specifications of Nazi ideology. Harvard University had the courage to refuse a scholarship offered by a Nazi propagandist. Can Yale administer this fund on these terms without upholding an ideal which is counter to Yale's own "best ideals and traditions?" --The American Jewish World...
...Last month Oxford's University Press exploded it anew with A History of Abyssinia ($2.25) in which the adoption of this legend by Coptic priests to give Ethiopia's present dynasty a savor of ancient lineage and of Biblical if not Divine authority is traced with British scholarship...
...pocketing with one hand the $2,000,000 gift of Gloveman Lucius Nathan Littauer for a Graduate School of Public Administration (TIME, Dec. 23), he dashed off with the other an appeal for Harvard's Three Hundredth Anniversary Fund. The Fund will be used partly for fat, new scholarships, partly to establish University Professorships. The "roving professors" may work where they choose, breaking down the artificial barriers between fields. Rich Harvardmen were invited to give $25,000 for a scholarship. Very rich Harvardmen were invited to put up $500,000 to found a University Professorship. Last week Thomas William...
...minute detail Mr. Warren had drawn the picture of the type of boy to whom the Warren scholarships should go: "Beneficiaries shall be boys of qualifications, antecedents and traditions similar to those possessed by my son. They are not to be chosen on the basis of scholarship rating but primarily because they will be adjudged to be boys of high character, possessed of attractive personality, gifts of leadership and of promise for future usefulness. ... I wish each award to serve not only as a memorial to my son but to the Anglo-Saxon race, to which the United States owes...