Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Burr scholarship is awarded to the undergraduate who, by the middle of his third year, has combined as nearly as possible the remarkable qualities of the late Francis H. Burr '09, of whom in 1911 President Lowell wrote in the memorial life of Burr presented with the scholarship "It seems to me that the tone of athletics, and of the whole student body, has been higher of late years than in the past, and that Francis Burr was one of the moving factors in the change...
...tendency of the college to thrust itself into the preparatory school life of the undergraduate-to-be is shown in another way: the decision of the commission of psychologisia to have the scholastic aptitude test available for the information of college authorities a year in advance of admission. The scholastic aptitude test assisted in the determination of the classes of 1930 and 1931 at Harvard, and has given reliable and illuminating information concerning the 15,000 candidates who have been examined during its experimental years of 1926 and 1927. Regarded no longer in the light of an experiment, the scholastic...
...conversation then turned on the editor of the next I happened to have brought. "That man never had a generous or unselfish motive in his life; and you will never live to see him have one." I never knew of Mr. Norton's acting from any other motive. He not only read out loud at home every evening; he offered every family in the land choice material for similar reading; every Sunday he read to the inmates of the Hospital for Incurables, not Tar from Shady Hill.... To describe Charles Eliot Norton in a single phrase, I should...
...however, to make clear to the younger generation his general character and aims. On that basis one may well cite a tribute which Mr. Norton once made to another great teacher, a friend of his and a fellow worker in the interests of the University--his sketch of the life of Francis James Child. Concerning Professor Child Mr. Norton wrote these words, and they fit not only the man whom they describe but the man who penned them. "To those who had the happiness of intimacy with him, his learning and all that he accomplished seem but as secondary...
...should like very much to see a University such as this in France", remarked Andre Maurois recently to a CRIMSON reporter in the course of an informal interview while he was being conducted about the University. "The seclusion and informality of the life at Harvard as it appears to me are far more conducive to study and to the forming of valuable friendships than is the extremely isolated and citified life at the Sorbonne and our other Universities...