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...Francis Henry Wade in memory of his son whose name it bears and who participated in the Boylston contest while he was an undergraduate of Harvard. The competition this year marks the one hundred and twelfth consecutive contest of the prize's existence. This year the stipend of the second Boylston award has been raised from $30 to $35 while the first prize, which ranks second to the Lee Wade prize remains at $50. The Boylston prizes were founded in 1817 by Ward Nicholas Boylston in honor of his uncle who established the Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory...
...Society by hearty, bearded President Dr. Clarence Gordon Campbell of the Eugenics Research Association. Briefly, what he proposed was that every clergyman be given a bonus for each baby he begets. Said he: "Any proposal to encourage breeding and to increase the progeny of the clergy by supplementing their stipend for the proper rearing of such progeny is not only a human obligation but a eugenic measure which contains the greatest promise of sustaining and increasing our most valuable racial stock...
...Albert Russel Erskine Fellowships in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences were established in connection with the Bureau. These fellowships pay a stipend of $1,000 each per year, and are designed to encourage research and a professional interest in traffic engineering...
With this in mind, the Council has decided ordinarily to award its fellowships to men not over 35 years of age. Fellows will be appointed for one year on a stipend of $1,800, subject to adjustment in individual cases, with an allowance for necessary travelling expenses...
...Poet. The Testament of Beauty is dedicated by the Poet Laureate to his King. Hitherto the Bridges Laureateship has been characterized by inactivity. Of all the line of laureates (which has included Dryden, Southey, Wordsworth, Tennyson) he has written the least official poetry. For his annual stipend of £72, and £27 in lieu of a butt of Canary wine, he has produced one thin official volume, October and other poems. Unlike the late great Laureate Tennyson, he has refused to vamp up verses for patriotic occasions and royal birthdays. When he visited...