Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lawrence F. Ebb '39, of Dorchester, and J. Spence Harvin '39, of Fort Worth, Texas, have been awarded the Ames Scholarship for 1938-39, it was announced last night at a meeting of the Student Council...
This is the second time the prize has been divided, and the fourth time it has been voted, since it was established in 1935. Based on a fund of $300 set aside annually by the Council, the Ames Scholarship is, according to the Council's constitution, to be awarded to men who "have shown energy in helping themselves and who, as well, exhibit the sterling character and inspiring leadership that were qualities of Richard and Henry Ames...
...Scholarship was established to honor the memory of the two Ames boys, who were lost at sea in a vain effort to rescue their father, Robert Russell Ames '07, in 1935. The committee making the award was composed of Mrs. Ames, mother of the two boys, Dean Hanford, and the president and treasurer of the Council...
Richard B. Johnson '36, and C. Colmery Gibson '37 divided the Scholarship the first year it was awarded, and John B. Bowditch '37 was the winner the next year. Sheldon Ware '38 was chosen last year...
...Lane '39, president of the Student Union, announced that the following statement was sent yesterday to all Eastern colleges for endorsement: "We students of American colleges protest the exclusion of Jewish students from German universities. Religious discrimination and book burning destroy twentieth century intellectual standards and degrade German scholarship...