Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were not yet 16 included one scholarship recipient and composed .62 percent of the class. Forty three were under 17, 4.48 percent of the entire aggregation. These 17 years old totaled 337 (35.14 per cent), while the 18-year-olds figured uppermost with a count of 442 and percentage...
...much rarer honor than elevation to the peerage, knighthood in the Order of the Garter, and in British circles this week Mr. Neville Chamberlain was slated to receive equal honors at the hands of King George VI. Birmingham University was at once presented last week with a $50.000 scholarship fund, donated by Midland Publisher Sir Charles Hyde "to commemorate the services for peace of the Prime Minister...
...Russian village of Vyshny Volochek. His mother, who died shortly after he was born, was a pianist; his father gave lessons on the violin. A poor boy, destined by a traditionally musical family for a musical career, he was soon on his way to Moscow in search of a scholarship at Moscow's Philharmonic Conservatory. Because he was late in applying, and because there were only a few places left in the conservatory orchestra, the only scholarships open to him were for instruction on 1) the trombone, 2) the bassoon, 3) the string bass. As the least of three...
...unveiling of a memorial tablet to Lionel de Jersey Harvard, descendant of John Harvard's brother who died during the Great War, Thomas H. Eliot '28, now running for Congress from the Ninth district, but then holder of the Lionel Harvard scholarship at Cambridge University, spoke briefly on his association with Lionel when he attended college here as an undergraduate...
Friday, Sept. 30:--Today I saw one of the things in the News that makes me understand Harvard less and less. It was a happy little notice about how Harry Downer got a scholarship up at Cambridge just because his name was Downer. This doesn't make any sense to me. What can be so attractive about the name Downer that people give him scholarships? Especially a feebly growing Downer who is self-admittedly a lazy sort of blighter. Why no Botsford scholarships? I bet erg for erg I can out-lethargy Downer every time out. And if Downer...