Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...self-evident proposition. It is never argued, but taken for granted, it crops out in the most unexpected places. When anybody offends you by seeming to affect an intellectual superiority, just look up his antecedents and if it turns out that he was once of our fellowship (even as a student in the Summer School) the whole thing is explained. This notion that all Harvard men run true to type has travelled...
...prominence of Latin athletes Heywood Broun envisions the approaching displacement of the Spartan ideal of ascetic preparation by an Athenian regime of unrestrained living and joyous unconcern. The gloomy "Nos" and "Do nots" of Calvinistic coaches are to be replaced by red wine and an engaging spirit of good fellowship. The "fight talk" of between halves, which can only be compared with the "miserable sinners repent" discourses of Puritan ancestors, will give way to an informal mingling of the athletes with the spectators...
...creating a life fellowship for Robert Frost, by the terms of which he has merely to remain in residence at Ann Arbor and write poetry, the University of Michigan has done an excellent piece of work. The esoteric quality of poetry precludes any great financial returns, and since the institution of private patrons is dead, the poet who is rich in imagination but poor in purse finds himself sore beset by creditors...
...Libby has for 14 years been a keen student of the European situation. Upon graduation from Andover Theological Seminary he received a two year traveling fellowship and went to Europe where he studied for a year at Oxford and then at one of the German universities, where he came to know intimately the militaristic regime of pre-war Germany...
...issue with your correspondent on only one of her remarks, although I can hardly follow her in such charges as "indifference toward academic work," "no getting together, no unity or bond of any sort," and being "cheated out of companionship," at Harvard. Of this it would seem that Harvard fellowship throughout the world is sufficient refutation...