Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great deal has been said about the place of the Harvard man, graduate and undergraduate, in the fellowship of educated men. His is not exactly an enviable position in an ever increasing body of university and college members. And it is both his fault and not his deliberate goal. He has been accused and convicted of a colossal mannerism, which can best be described as a superiority complex. And be it said, that proud and vain glorious animal that he is, he has sometimes secretly reveled in the condemnation--a statement applicable almost exclusively to the undergraduate...
September, and another 1000 Freshmen, most of them expecting eventually to be "welcomed to the fellowship of educated men." Freshmen are a perpetual and perennial problem, yet they have not reached the point of considering themselves as problems, so others must needs do it for them. Life is too full of a number of things, including courses. To stay in Harvard they must be passed-somehow. Ways and means are various, good ways and bad. A few may hit on the good ways by virtue of instruction in the matter or because they are essentially students by nature...
...reason for schools. In schools the problem arises how to get the subject matter of such courses as "History I" into the mental accumulation of the student when his natural inquisitiveness lies not in that direction. Yet such courses must be passed before one is permitted to join the fellowship of educated men. And the course is passed to the examinations are passed...
...Teutonic at the same time. It is the atmosphere of old Heidelberg that interests him mainly. The story is spread thin-being nothing more unusual than the one about the princeling who went to college and fell in love with the barmaid. But the beer-quaffing, the jolly good-fellowship and the intrusion at odd moments of the ridiculous pomposities that beset princes of every romance, are the details that Director Lubitsch loves to fondle and set forth. In the end the prince returns to marry a very unattractive body with a long title. The little maid turns sadly away...
Another scholarship bringing an Englishman to Harvard is the Joseph H. Choate Fellowship, awarded to W. H. B. Court, of Downing College, who is to study in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...