Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President James Bryant Conant has twice refused to accept scholarships from Alumnus Ernst Franz Sedgwick ("Putzy") Hanfstaengl, Dictator Hitler's pressagent and musical solace. But last week President Conant wrote to Rector Groh: "The President and Fellows, in accepting the invitation of the University of Heidelberg, recognize the ancient ties by which the universities of the world are united and which are independent of the political conditions existing in any country at any particular time...
...recognizing qualities besides those of intellect--qualities which show themselves in a man's participation in various extracurricular activities. Well-rounded men, thoroughly capable of serving society, are what Harvard tries to produce; and that aim certainly will not be furthered by sending scholars forth to delve exclusively in ancient archives, when society needs men to lead it. Group IV men who have taken an active part in prominent university activities of all sorts should not be passed over in the awarding of scholarships in favor of a collection of students with unbalanced and overspecialized interests...
...Ancient and Modern Languages, J. G. Hart; Anthropology, A. M. Tozzer; Biochemical Sciences, J. T. Edsall; Biology, Morgan Upton; Classics and Allied Subjects, Mason Hammond; Fine Arts, C. L. Kuhn; Geological Sciences, P. E. Raymond; History, Government and Economics, D. D. Burbank; History and Literature, F. O. Matthiessen; Literature, Mason Hammond; Mathematics, M. H. Stone; Music, G. W. Woodworth; Physics, F. H. Crawford; Philosophy and Psychology, Raphael Demos; Sociology, C. C. Zimmerman...
...sorry to see your news column supporting the ancient fable, "The jealousy of Harvard postponed the founding of Amherst College for more than half a century". The proposed Queen's College at Hadley in 1762 had about the same relation to Amherst as Harvard would have had to Yale if Harvard had never been founded. Harvard successfully opposed the chartering of Queen's College for good and sufficient reasons; but it made no opposition to the founding of Amherst College in 1821, despite the fact that Harvard godlessness was one of the alleged reasons why a college was needed...
...Emperor Claudius or Lion Feuchtwanger's on Josephus, and neither added to nor subtracted from history's blackboard, it furnished modern readers with a stirring, up-to-date account of one of Rome's greatest true stories. Author Bentley also hoped that her factual record of ancient autocracy would point a moral for the present...