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...Harvard Dramatic Club will present its plays, this year on December 12, 14 and 16, two performances being in Cambridge and one in Boston. Edward B. Sheldon '08 is taking the place of Winthrop Ames '95 as a member of the committee to choose the plays to be given. The other two members are H. T. Parker, of the Boston Transcript, and Professor G. P. Baker '87. This committee is now reading the plays that have been submitted and their decision will be announced at a later date...
...Committee, immediately on its formation, decided to adopt no principle of even distribution among Schools or Departments, but to choose, so far as it could, the very best available men who had received from the University a degree of any sort. The Committee intends that the award of a Sheldon Fellowship shall be as high a distinction as can be conferred on a student in the University. The annual income of the Sheldon Fund is about $17,000; the fellowships have varied in amount from...
...Sheldon Fellows were literally spread over the face of the earth: Mr. Philip, Greeley Clapp was studying Music in Germany; Mr. Oscar James Campbell, Comparative Literature in England; Mr. Edgar Davidson Congdon, Zoology in Europe; Mr. Melvin Thomas Copeland, the cotton industry in Europe; Mr. Summer Webster Cushing, Geography in India; Messrs. Arthur Johnson Eames and Edmund Ware Sinnott, Botany in Australia; Mr. Griffith Conrad Evans, Mathematics in Europe; Mr. Augustus Locke, Mining and Metallurgy in the United States and Mexico; Mr. Robert Grant Martin, English Dramatic Literature in England; Mr. Sheldon Osgood Martin, Economics in South America; Mr. Henry...
This year the Committee, in accordance with what it believes to be Mrs. Sheldon's general purpose, has picked out two or three men of unusual promise in the Senior class who would profit by a year abroad, without specific time or place of study, and the Corporation has awarded to them Sheldon Fellowships on the recommendation of the Committee...
...will be seen that Mrs. Sheldon's bequest is one of the most important and interesting that the University has received in recent years...