Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...creation of the comic character, Hyman Kaplan, in the New Yorker, where he uses the pseudonym Leonard Q. Ross. Polish-born, short, dark-eyed and heavy-lidded, Mr. Rosten at two was taken to Chicago where he soon began to fight poverty with animated ingenuity. A University of Chicago scholarship started his education and he earned Phi Beta Kappa honors. After a year of browsing in Europe, unable to find the newspaper job he wanted when he returned to Chicago, Author Rosten lectured in the Midwest, taught in a night school where he got the idea for the twisted-tongue...
...dozen suggested readings for doubtful passages, to out & out romances telling tall tales of the Mermaid Tavern in phoney blank verse. Between these two extremes there are a few studies like Logan Pearsall Smith's On Reading Shakespeare, designed for readers who want to know what modern scholarship has unearthed, but do not want to spend their lives studying such academic posers as what Shakespeare meant by "a mermaid on a dolphin's back," or why Gabriel Harvey hated Christopher Marlowe...
...Saturday games; and they did more. Their whole lives for the fall months revolve around thoughts only of football. Yet all are required to keep grades as high as students with no activities of any kind; indeed by some, the football players are even watched more suspiciously than scholarship men. Most forms of social life and diversion are automatically given up, and for all this very little praise is meted out during a poor season or even a moderately successful one. It is easy to see why players take their football seriously; if there is to be a winning team...
With about $600 awarded, and some $300 already earmarked for the Ames Memorial Aids, approximately $1100 is still available to undergraduates for the remainder of the college year. Applicants to be considered for one of these scholarships should report the facts of their case to one of the members of the Scholarship Committee at least three weeks in advance of the date on which a term bill is due, should they be applying for aid on a specific term bill. Members of the Scholarship Committee are Caspar W. Weinberger '38, chairman, Edward L. Barnes '38, Richard H. Sullivan...
...applicant does not give his applications for a scholarship to one of the members of the Committee personally, he should leave the following information at the Council office: expected income for the year, probable expenses, amount of aid being received from the University from scholarships, loans, and al other sources, extra-curricular activities, amount of time spent in outside work, and group in the rank list...