Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Under the will of the late Rebecca A. Greene (Mrs. Francis B. Greene), the University has just received $18,500 for the purpose of founding a scholarship to be known as the "John White Browne Scholarship." According to a recent vote of the Corporation, the Dean of the Medical School is to have the privilege of nominating the recipient of this award. The scholarship will be given to some student of promise in order to enable him to pursue for one year research investigations in medicine. Such research work may be carried on at the Medical School or elsewhere...
John White Browne, in whose memory the scholarship has been established, was a graduate of the College in the class of 1830. He was a resident of Salem and an uncle of Mrs. Greene...
John Archibald Sessions '21, of Northampton, was awarded the 1920 Class Memorial Scholarship by Dean Yeomans in behalf of the Class of 1920 at a meeting of the Freshman Class in the Smith Halls Common Room last evening. Sessions, who prepared at St. Paul's was manager of the 1921 football team this fall and has been one of the best players on the Freshman hockey team this winter. As established by the Class of 1919 in its gift last year the scholarship is valued...
...Freshman meeting was first addressed by Ensign F. C. Church '20, president of the Class of 1920 last year, who stated that the executive board of the Sophomore Class had decided to give the scholarship in order to continue the custom established last year...
Dean Yeomans, in awarding the scholarship, spoke a few words about the difficulty of staying at college in war times...