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President Conant went on to outline his new fellowship plan which will begin next fall with the entrance as Freshmen of five or ten selected candidates from the Middle Western States; these Fellows are to receive a stipend of from $200 to $1,000 a year, which may be held throughout the college course with the possibility of an advancement to a maximum of $1,200 annually. These fellowships are to be competed for as prizes by all students regardless of their financial circumstances with selection based on the three qualities of originality, ambition, and initiative...
...incident is important as a clue to what will happen when the depression has lasted long enough to reduce the entire national corps of creative artists to the status of Government pensioners. Lugubrlous as the prospect is, it is not without its attractions: Mr. Mencken drawing a weekly stipend for turning out D.A.R. brochures, Senor Rivera naturalized and dotting the public parks of the land with equestrian General Pershings, a qualified muralist doing over the replastered Dartmouth Library walls with an "I pledge Allegiance to My Flag" motif . . . and subsidized humorists doing what they can with...
...Society of Fellows, a unique development in American Education, is expected to stimulate "intellectual contagion beyond anything now in this country." The newly elected members will receive free room and board, free use of all University facilities, and a stipend of $1,250, with the chance of reappointment after the first term of three years have expired...
President Conant's first specific proposal for attracting outstanding students to Harvard has emerged with unusual promptness as an accomplished fact. The six "experimental" Freshman scholarships, carrying an initial stipend of $1,000 with the promise of more to come, will have the direct effect of enabling a small number of men of exceptional talents to attend Harvard completely free from financial worries. More important than this, they will serve notice to the country that the College is actively and aggressively interested in attracting the cream of preparatory school graduates. Inaugurated with the proper publicity, an experiment as novel...
...interested in teaching, and who like to work with young men. They must have attractive and interesting personalities, and should be neither young nor old. And, furthermore, they must be well paid. No man of this calibre can be expected to work for the paltry stipend a tutor now receives. More tomorrow, Veritas...