Word: sheldon
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...there be any doubt that the literary situation at Harvard, as regards undergraduate effort, is badly in need of re-vivification? For several years the Advocate has consistently failed to live up to its splendid traditions and unequalled opportunities. The shades of Aiken, Van Wyck Brooks, Sheldon, Biggers, Hagedorn, Ficke, and others, have hovered in vain. At their best we have had only dilettantism; at their worst puerility; and throughout this period of decadence a continual subservience to the vapid social and political aims of the editors. And by some irony of Fate this paper has lived when the Monthly...
Secretary Warren F. Sheldon of the alumni council of Wesleyan University, estimates that the college deficit this year, due to war conditions, will be from $30,000 to $35,000, in a total annual budget of about $200,000. A large freshman class has kept the deficit from being considerably larger than it otherwise would have been. The college finances have, however, decreased about 40 percent in the three upper classes. Some of the surplus funds accumulated in recent years will be used this year to make up the deficit, and Secretary Sheldon anticipates that the rest will be received...
...last meeting of the President and Fellows, Sheldon Fellowships the 1917-18 were awarded to 13 men in the Graduate Schools and to four men in the College...
...Frederick Sheldon Fund for training fellowships was established in the University in 1909, and the income is present about $15,000. The fellowship are assigned on recommendations to the committee from the various department and schools for purposes of study in the country--outside the University--abroad...
...following were awarded Sheldon Prize Fellowships for study and travel Emmanuel Amdursky '18, of Pittsburgh Pa.; Howard Gordon Bennett '17, of Peoria, Ill.; Ronald Martin Foster '17, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Charles Lawton Sherman '17, of Newport...