Word: junior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the Society of Fellows puts no restraints on a man's work, the members are charged when entering with a high order of scholarship. Most members take this quite seriously. One Junior Fellow, breaking his all-day routine at the biological labs, came home at eleven one morning to find a gathering of maids in his room. Five of them, sitting on his bed were having their daily tea party, confident that his devotion to biology would keep the coast clear...
This kind of intense scholarship has not produced any consistent line of work, but has made a vast number of single forays at the edges of knowledge. Papers, articles, and published books comprising 123 pages of bibliography in the Society's book have been the concrete fruit of the Junior Fellows' efforts. Articles range in topic from "The Condensation of Ethyl a-Acetylpropionate with Ethyl Chlorofumarate," and "Human Relations in the Restaurant Business," to the welcome information on "Dry Cleaning as an Attractant for the Kelpfly." Books have varied as widely, discussing everything from the Earl of Rochester's poetry...
Such diverse research is often carried on in collaboration with faculty members and the results passed on to College undergraduates in informal lectures by the older members. Almost every year a Junior Fellow gives a series of talks for the Lowell Institute. Last year, one lectured on mathematics to the philosophy club. And, of greater interest to the University, many go on to teach here. Of the first group of Fellows, three: Garrett Birkhoff, Willard Quinc, and B. F. Skinner, have become Professors at Harvard. Since then a steady stream of members has enriched the faculty. Presently, twenty-five--around...
...most cases, while Junior Fellows study in close connection with Professors in their field, they are under only the most general eye of the Senior Fellows. These form an unusual group in their own right: Howard Mumford Jones, Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Kenneth B. Murdock, Samuel Eliot Morison, and Alfred North Whitchead have been past members. The present group of Senior Fellows is led by Crane Brinton and includes Frederick L. Hisaw, Harry T. Levin, Arthur Darby Nock, Renato Poggioli and Edward M. Purcell...
There is, perhaps, only one solemn dinner for a Junior Fellow, and this is his first appearance with the Society. At that time, President Lowell's statement of principles is read and subscribed to by all the incoming members. The statement rings with an aggressive affirmation of scholarly humility...