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Paul Allen Towne (December 8, 1823 - August 27, 1903) was an American educator, bibliophile, editor and librarian. He was the founder of the Polytechnic Society of Kentucky . Librarian in Louisville
The good news is that scholarships aren’t just for incoming first-year students; there are hundreds of scholarships available to current college students that can help lower the cost of a degree ...
Scholarship America is a Minnesota-based American philanthropic organization that assists communities, corporations, foundations and individuals with fundraising, managing and awarding scholarships to students. The organization designs, administers and manages corporate and foundation scholarship programs; it also operates Dollars for Scholars ...
The federation was created in 1919 to represent the United States in the Union Académique Internationale (International Union of Academies). The founders of ACLS, representatives of 13 learned societies, believed that a federation of scholarly organizations (dedicated to excellence in research, and most with open membership) was the best combination of U.S. democracy and intellectual aspirations.
[5] The scholarships are awarded by the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission and are largely funded by the British government. [6] The program was also the first major co-educational British graduate scholarship; one-third of the inaugural cohort in 1954 were women.
In 1958, Churchill College at Cambridge was founded in honor of Sir Winston Churchill with a primary focus on science, engineering and mathematics. Anticipating the final establishment of the college, Churchill met with American friends Lewis W. Douglas, John Loeb Sr., and Carl Gilbert to ask them to create a scholarship for young Americans to study at the college.
Lee Shiflett provides the history of the philosophical beliefs of academic librarians in the late 19th and early 20th century. [4] An essay published in Libraries, Books and Culture, by Wayne A. Wiegand detailed the politics surrounding the formation of the Bibliographical Society of America through its split from the American Library Association and the reconstituting of the Bibliographical ...
Director Harvard University, Houghton Library of Rare Books and Manuscripts,1942-1964; [33] Gold Medal of the Bibliographical Society, 1965. [34] [35] LeRoy E. Kimball [36] 1948- 1949 New York University comptroller; President of the Modern Language Association of America; President, New York Historical Society. [37] James T. Babb [38] 1950-1952