Word: spain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Conn., has been awarded the David A. Wells Prize in Economics of $500 for the best thesis embodying the results of original investigation. Haring, who last year was a graduate student in the University, is now teaching at Yale. The subject of his thesis is "Trade and Navigation Between Spain and the Indies," which under the provisions of the Wells endowment will be published by the University...
Notice was received announcing the award of the David A. Wells Prize for 1916-17 to C. H. Haring '07, of New York City, for an essay on "Trade and Navigation between Spain and the Indies." This prize, which consists of an annual award of $500, is awarded through the Department of Economics for the best thesis embodying the results of original investigation in the field of economics...
...year in the Law School. A keen interest in old books prompted him to give up law and go abroad, returning later to become librarian of the University Club. As the holder of this position up to his death he made frequent research excursions in Europe, particularly in Spain, where he worked extensively in 1913. The ballad department of the Widener Library owes its position as first among the collections in America largely to Mr. Gay and his brother, the late Frederick Lewis Gay '78. He had arranged that on his death his "Beggar's Opera" collection should...
...windy clouds swirl high. He felt indeed very witty. But he quite failed to feel that realism is entirely a matter of the effect produced and has nothing whatever to do with servile imitation of physical act. If you feel that the scarlet Cardinal and the Catholic Church represent Spain's hope and defiance of its great sadness; if you feel that the landscape behind "Uncle Daniel" is what formed both him and his family, if you feel these things, there is the reason for their existence, there the reality and there the beauty...
...lady complained that all the types were alike: There was no variety, all the colors were dull, all the landscape equally mournful. Now this is actually to condemn not merely individual consistency of mood but the consistency in spirit of an entire nation throughout the ages. Did she expect Spain to cast off her mourning and giggle? Did she seek for a soda fountain in Segovia? Did she want the devil on the church steeple? If she did I call her a fool, if she did not I place her in the ranks of those who fail to recognize, calling...