Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moody, $20,000 to Author Gertrude Atherton, scores of other bequests to natives whose brain or brawn had reflected credit on his beloved state.* Last week another of the Senator's benefactions posthumously bore fruit when the San Francisco Art Association awarded the first $2,000 Phelan Traveling Scholarship to Helen Elizabeth Phillips, a young sculptor who in all her 23 years has never been outside the Golden Bear State...
...university last week plumped squarely for the wise. To Cambridge, Mass, for the culmination- of its 300th anniversary celebration in September, Harvard invited 66 top-flight pundits, so carefully hand-picked by President James Bryant Conant and his faculty that they furnished an international Who's Who of scholarship...
Franker than most autobiographers since Rousseau, Murry makes no bones about revealing some unflattering facts, but his candor often leaves a disingenuous impression. Born in a London suburb in 1889, of poor but respectable parents, he was early made to feel the young hopeful. He won a scholarship to a public school (Christ's Hospital) where he learned to be ashamed of his background. He sums up his youthful self as "part snob, part coward, part sentimentalist ... an unattractive personality." But he went up to Oxford with a reputation as a bright lad. His chances for a first-class...
...residue of the profits made this year by the Red Book, amounting to over $500 in all, will be turned over to the Council. Of this amount $200 will be given as a scholarship next year to some member of the Class of 1939. The remainder will be kept in the Council's budget to guarantee the 1940 Red Book Committee...
...Council is to be congratulated for at last recognizing this situation. The revised Red Book will aid in coordinating the Class, the fund will give it an independence which it has hitherto lacked, and the scholarship will give the men working on the Red Book a feeling that they are working for the benefit of their own Class rather for the Student Council...