Word: stipend
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...examples of words which the editor despises. According to the "Bookman," "sense" appears as a verb in every form from the "father sensed his son's abstraction" to the "peeling infant sensed the coming of the succulent milk-bottle." "Poignant" is on the blacklist because of its downright stupidity, "stipend" because of its oily politician sound. "Remuneration" is a foolishly long latinized word, and "dainty" and "refined" are classed as belonging to the "chewing gum" variety...
...April 7. This fellowship was established in 1906 by Mr. Charles F. McKim, of New York, through a gift of $20,000 as the permanent foundation for a travelling fellowship in architecture, to be called in memory of his wife the Julia Amory Appleton Fellowship, with an annual stipend...
...Archaeological Institute of America offers a Fellowship in Early Christian Archaeology with a stipend of $600 for the year of 1917-18. The fellowship is intended for the use of students in theology, history and archaeology, who intend to pursue research in early Christian history (antiquities, institutions, liturgy) or early Christian archaeology (art, epigraphy, paieography). The fellowship will be awarded by the Institute's committee on Mediaeval and Renaissance Studies, on the basis of the papers and testimonials submitted by the applicants and the information afforded by their equipment and abilities for independent research. Applications should be in the hands...
...winners of the Rhodes Scholarships are entitled to a three-years' residence at Oxford with a stipend of $1,500 a year. In making the award the judges not only take into consideration the candidate's mental and moral excellence, but also his physical fitness, a and "all-around" man being preferred. The scholar is elected by the Committee from among such persons as pause the qualifying examinations and fulfill certain conditions as to citizenship, age, residence and scholarship. The qualifying examinations for candidates from Massachusetts this year were held at the Medical School on October 3 and 5. Similar...
...scholarship at the University of Oxford for the period of residence beginning in October, 1917, is awarded by the Committee of Selection for Massachusetts, the scholar to be elected by the Committee from among such persons as shall have passed the qualifying examinations announced above. The stipend of the scholarship as fixed by the founder is fifteen hundred dollars per annum...