Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bishop Ryan is a most intolerant man. That at first glance may seem a severe indictment. . . . He was never intolerant, however, of real scholarship and earnest effort but merely of slipshod methods. . . . Allied with his intolerance, Bishop Ryan possessed a superiority complex. This dreadful sounding affliction was in no sense personal. . . . His authority as Rector of the University was vigorously exercised to support 'his consciousness of the superiority of Catholic culture...
...climb fast in opera. She was born 29 years ago in Titusville, Pa., where her father kept a candy and hardware store combined. Her first job was as a corset-fitter in an Akron department store. Then by selling phonograph records she became converted to opera, won a scholarship at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music...
Eighty-three upperclassmen, representing twenty-three states outside of Massachusetts and New York, as well as the District of Columbia, have been voted scholarships for the current academic year totaling $27,150 from the University Scholarship fund. These scholarships were awarded to men in high scholtic standing by the Corporation, s follows...
...Ames Scholarship of $150 each have been awarded by the Student Council to C. Colmery Gibson '37 and to Richard B. Johnson '36. Each will be given a printed memorial recording the activities of the two Ames brothers and the story of their tragic death...
Longing for a bit of the rich aroma of old scholarship, yesterday we decided to browse. Forgetting things temporal in the stacks of Widener and the dust of decades, we pored over many a musty tome. Among our findings was an apocryphal edition of Gaius Suctonins Tranquillus' "Lives of the Twelve Caesars". There were portions of it where the nosy grandfather of all the columnists had become sillier than ever. To save his face generous moderns have cut his trash. But for the moment we resented our present-day cult of the important, and we reveled in triviala...