Word: iv
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strutting young scientificos of the present day and age. In ancient states a taster was more valued than a chief-of-staff. Tacitus, indeed, tells of empire-shaking deeds when the taster succumbed to the lure of Tammany tactics, and Montaigne accounts it the greatest of compliments that Henry IV of France dispensed with his taster when visiting at the essayist's chateau. But Montaigne was a humanist, and had not reduced his kitchen to a system of boilers, pulleys, chafing dishes and steam baths...
...John Clark put in his place. Roosevelt will move out of the number 2 seat to take over Clark's place at 6. The third boat stroked by Ed Simmons, the pace-setter in the 1935 Yale race, has exchanged a couple of men with the number IV boat, but when the latter boat is dissolved in a day or so Whiteside will probably select two or three of the best men to take positions in the third eight...
...Boat IV: stroke, David Emerson '38; 7, Robert M. Drysdale Jr. '36; 6, William N. Dearborn '38; 5, Richard M. Stern '37; 4, Francis E. Maser '38; 3, Roger W. Drury '36; 2, George A. Matteson Jr. '36; how, Lawrence Mills '37; and cox, Roswell B. Paine '39. The last three boats will go out together at 4.30 o'clock...
...certain worthy individuals who get three B's and a C instead of a B average are being overlooked in favor of brain-merchants who are not so deserving in other ways. There are two factors which seem to indicate the desirability of granting scholarships to students in Group IV...
Another problem with which the Group IV man has to cope is the extent of his interest in outside activities, which detract from study time and yet are worthy. It is not a question of handing out football and hockey scholarships indiscriminately, but of 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...