Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This brings the total amount distributed in the form of scholarships to $1660 for the year, and the Scholarship Committee repeated its previous announcement that the deadline for receiving applications for scholarships this year is April 18. Applications should be handed in to the Council office in Phillips Brooks House...
Your issue of TIME, Feb. 28 puzzles me. You imply that Franklin D. Roosevelt did not win his Phi Beta Kappa key through scholarship. Can it be that nowadays Presidents are given this honor without earning it? My understanding is that Phi Beta Kappa is about the only organization that one cannot "crash in" without true scholarship...
Franklin Roosevelt did not "win his Phi Beta Kappa key through scholarship." Twice awarded him honoris causa, it was given by both Hobart College chapter and the Harvard College chapter in 1929. Other famed honorary Phi Beta Kappas: John Marshall. Washington Irving, John Greenleaf Whittier, Lorado Taft, Calvin Coolidge, Glenn Frank. In the past three years Phi Beta Kappa has awarded no honorary memberships...
Morgan. Arrayed with scholarship and point in the quiet rooms of the Morgan Library were illuminated manuscripts, art objects and drawings from the 9th to the 17th Century, portraying the Passion, Resurrection and Ascension of Christ. Choice items: a recently acquired 14th-century missal illuminated by the great Niccolo da Bologna; a gold and enamel 12th-Century altar; Raphael's original drawing of the Agony in the Garden for a famed altarpiece owned by the Metropolitan Museum...
...Hogben (Mathematics for the Million), an English biologist who calls himself a "scientific humanist" and is a kind of English version of iconoclastic Thorstein Veblen. Writers and statesmen he attacks for their ignorance of science, scientists for their ignorance of social matters. In addition he attacks Marxists, liberals, classical scholarship, "sentimental internationalists," theology, economists, and educators who permit children to study what they like rather than what is good for them (science). On the constructive side, he advocates biotechnology as a way to make nations self-sufficient, thermodynamics as a way to find out what people need to eat, psychology...