Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Playwright Patrick Hamilton denies that he was influenced by the history of Leopold and Loeb, acknowledges a debt to Thomas De Quincey's essay "Murder as a Fine Art." The source is immaterial -this crescendo of fear depends on neither history nor scholarship. Mr. Hamilton, like Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Arthur Conan Doyle, is an artist who makes diabolical fiction seem as real as sticks and stones...
...heart. ... As a general rule women do not earn as high salaries as men. Moreover, they look forward to marrying and are reluctant to load a debt on a young husband. A debt makes an unattractive sort of dowry. . . ." Dean Gildersleeve thus touched upon one phase of the scholarship and tuition loan problem which, present at all colleges, is being attacked from a new angle by a big new institution called the Lincoln Scholarship Fund. This Fund started functioning last week in Manhattan. Its campaign: to raise $1,120,000 to lend as tuition fees to "anyone, regardless...
...young man in the U. S. to become his understudy (TIME, Aug. 12). After answering Mr. Edison's questions, Charles Brunissen said he thought many of them were "senseless, idiotic." Then he learned that though he had not won the contest, with its prize of a four-year scholarship at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he and the three boys from Pennsylvania, New Mexico and Indiana, respectively, had done so well that Mr. Edison thought they deserved four-year tuition at any U. S. college. Bright Boy Brunissen chose to enter Yale...
...judge in Thomas Alva Edison's scholarship contest...
...called in five boys for a brief chat that seemed to have no significance. Actually, it was to decide by personal impression the outcome of a practical tie. To Wilbur Brotherton Huston, 16, son of the Episcopal Bishop of Olympia (Wash.), went the award that meant four years full scholarship at any institution he will choose. So pleased was Inventor Edison with his test's success that additional prizes were given, going to "Connecticut," "Pennsylvania," "New Mexico," "Indiana," and consisting of four years' tuition at any college...