Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rosenwald Fund each year subsidizes a group of white men and women in the South and brilliant Negroes everywhere for scholarship and creative work. This year it granted $85,000 to 18 whites, 34 Negroes. The Negro fellows, picked from 400 applicants, are expected to make important contributions to U. S. culture in a dozen fields of knowledge...
...modern times has received little attention from them, and only a few of the younger men have corrected this by viewing the Classics as literature and putting it into terms other than second-hand nineteenth century "appreciation.' The department might be described as piling on Ossa of inherited Classical scholarship on a Pelion of lack-lustre emotion and getting, as the Giants in the legend did, exactly nowhere...
...newly appointed to Williams is Roy Lamson Jr., '29 instructor in English and tutor in the Division of Modern Languages, who has been named assistant professor in English. Dr. Lamson received his M.A. here in 1930 and his Ph. D. in 1936. Last summer he won a Charles Dexter scholarship for summer study in England...
With a mischievous twinkle in his beady eyes, Gargantua the Great, featured circus star, admitted last night that he had refused Yale's offer of a football scholarship. "My career comes firs," he thundered...
Robert C. Jones '38, of Toledo, Ohio, and Winthrop House, plans to study Physics in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences on his scholarship grant, while Gordon M. Messing '38, of Indianapolis, Indiana, and Eliot House will work at the Sorbonne in Paris before returning to Cambridge...