Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prize fellowships were established in six states in the Middle West three years ago and now have been extended so that boys are eligible to compete if they reside and attend school in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan. Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, or Tennessee. When sufficient gifts for scholarship purposes are made to Harvard's 300th anniversary fund, the program of large prize awards for entering Freshmen will be placed upon a national basis and boys in every state will be eligible for the scholarships...
...boys, who were school leaders in scholarship and class activities, were chosen from an area including Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee. Eighteen other secondary school graduates from these states were named earlier this summer as winners of Harvard College Prize Fellowships...
...That it is written in as graceful prose as any U. S. writer can claim is a tribute to Mr. Brooks's taste. That he can quote the source, in some novel, diary, letter or essay, "for every phrase" in its 537 pages, is testimony of his creative scholarship...
...Human Marriage, published in 1889, has continued it with The History of Human Marriage, The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas, Marriage Ceremonies in Morocco, Ethical Relativity. Professor at the University of London for 23 years, he has gained his reputation on the strength of his careful scholarship and his broad liberal views, and despite his tendency to speak in platitudes...
...life classes because they were open only to men, was put to drawing from plaster casts. The local burghers invariably called her worst pictures masterpieces, tried to get her to do their portraits. Self-supporting in Nottingham, she gave private art lessons, got a few small commissions, finally a scholarship. Her ally through these hard years was a young man several years ahead of her in the Nottingham Art School, as poor and as able as she. His name was Harold Knight, and in 1903 she married him. Same year she got her first picture accepted by the Royal Academy...