Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under way among unite of the Associated Harvard Clubs is an extensive drive to raise $30,000 for the permanent endowment of the Lionel deJersey Harvard Studentships, it was announced by J. Burke Wilkinson '35, executive vice-chairman of the scholarship committee...
According to a circular sent out by George C. Cutler '14, the Lionel deJersey Harvard scholarship was so named because he was a collateral descendent of the University's founder, because he was the first of the name in nearly 300 years to be enrolled as a student here, and because "he died gallantly in action, as an acting captain of the Grenadier Guards, at Arras on March...
...With the years, the Studentship has grown in honor and dignity until today it is the ranking American scholarship in Cambridge. Because the men selected by Harvard have been scholars and leaders, too, the Harvard Scholar has become a popular and respected figure in Cambridge undergraduate life," says Wilkinson...
Sustained through the contributions of J. P. Morgan '89 and Randolph C. Grow '95 the scholarship has been maintained for twelve years. At the Tercentenary officials of Emmanuel College announced that their financial contribution would be raised from Pound 70 to Pound 170 "in recognition of the event and the honor in which they held the visiting Harvard...
...scholarship holders in the past most prominent are Victory H. Harding '31 and Stanton Whitney, Jr. '34, Varsity football players, and Oscar Sutermeister '33, the pole-vaulter...