Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those who have given a scholarship fund ($1,000 annually) to help the Johns Hopkins plan. The scholarships are to be established in every State. Other contributors so far include: Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. (Ohio), Bill Raskob Memorial Foundation (Delaware),* General Motors Corp. (Michigan), Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Corp. (West Virginia). The Edison "Genius Hunt" consists in finding in each State the high school student who has most distinguished himself in scientific subjects during the present school year. In August, Mr. Edison will give the 48 students an examination, will take the one with the highest mark into his New Jersey...
...quite certain the records will show that Virginia has been more hurt by the withholding of legitimate news than by its free publication. Several examples of this have recently occurred. If only good news is published the reading public will have scant respect for its value. All the news should come out, whether for good or ill. The very fact that it is going to be printed will increase efforts to prevent the happening of things that are more to our injury than credit. And this is especially true of continuing conditions, brought out by studies of the institution itself...
Publications which challenged the winner were the Blair Breeze, the Exonian, the Hill News, The Meteor of the Virginia Episcopal School. The Philippians of Andover, the Mercersberg News, the Red and White of St. George's, the Reserve Record of the Western Reserve Academy, and the Taft Papyrus...
...will spread to some of those universities which still represent in their buildings the unmixed blessings of a single native tradition in architecture, that our own earlier unique and dignified American inheritance will be sacrificed, and that a Gothic anachronism will appear on the campus of the University of Virginia, William and Mary or at Harvard as now threatens. May God forbid such desecration--From a communication in The Daily Princetonian...
When Sherwood Anderson wandered over the Virginia hills from his Troutdale farm to the town of Marion, the townsfolk, inquisitive, turned out to see the Famous Author. But when he wandered over again and bought their printshop, lock, stock and cuspidor, with its two weekly papers, their reaction was not so simple. They were proud that the Author should choose their town and their county newspapers for his own. But they were ashamed that he had been famed for a "filthy mind" and dreaded lest he turn it indecently loose in their respectable little papers. They were pleased that...