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Tactfully omitting reference to Harvard's National Scholarships, Inglis Lecturer Aubrey Williams last week proclaimed to a be-Fogged audience the joys and benefits of labor. More, for once, in the tradition of Jefferson than is Jefferson-admiring President Conant, Mr. Williams by implication criticized his host's views on the "distraction" of earning a living, and put up a convincing argument for the work scholarship instead of the direct stipend...
Although they agree completely and entirely on the end to be achieved--higher education for able young people from all economic classes--Jim and Aubrey differ, at least at first blush, about the type of scholarship aid which should be provided for the able but needy. Youth Administrator Williams asserts that the student who works to earn some of the costs of his education is happier, learns better work habits, and feels himself more a member of the community, than the boy who is simply given the money he needs, without any productive service being required of him. Replying that...
...there were a few drowsing deans in the audience when Aubrey Williams spoke here Thursday evening, the lapse was a pardonable one. For the ideas which the National Youth Administrator discussed so ably could hardly have seemed novel or radical to any one who has listened to President Conant's theories of education--or who is at all familiar with what Thomas Jefferson believed. Though they differ on the practical problem of how to pay for that education, Tom, Jim, and Aubrey are in surprising accord when it comes to the kind of schooling and the type of student they...
...this point there is general agreement among Tom, Jim, and Aubrey. But they don't jibe on the mechanism needed to assure able young people from all economic classes a chance to continue their education. Jefferson thought that having public schools and colleges was enough; President Conant believes that private scholarships are needed; and Mr. Williams puts up a brief for public scholarship assistance. The Jeffersonian notion is thoroughly outmoded, and the President's faith in the adequacy of private funds is also no longer tenable--his own annual pleas for scholarship funds growing more and more urgent as continued...
Another Thin Man (Myrna Loy, William Powell, C. Aubrey Smith, Sheldon Leonard; TIME...