Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Rhodes scholarships which were postponed for the duration of the war, have been resumed this fall. The Rhodes will provides that two scholars shall be studying constantly at Oxford from each state in the Union. Each scholar stays three years and receives a stipend of $1500 a year, out of which he pays his tuition, fees and other expenses like any other student. Tow scholarships being assigned to a state, and each scholarship being tenable for three years, there is one year out of every three in which no election takes place...
...honor to a great hero of the great war, whose victories are not of a military but of a saintly order; by profession an ecclesiastic, by temperament a scholar, by force of circumstances and of his own character a statesman. Early attracted by the scholastic philosophy he created when still young the Institute of Philosophy at Louvain, and possessing the strenuous industry of a scholar he took as his motto "Labor as a good soldier of Christ." His philosophic system comprehended the thought of all ages and the discoveries of modern psychology; and his fame, with that of all ages...
...more one examines life the more he becomes impressed with the importance of the middle course. No great question is one-sided; in order to reach a real solution one must be able to examine it from both sides. Thus we find the true philosopher, the true scholar is very careful in making unqualified statements; he is a liberal in the real sense of the word, and after hearing him we always go away with a feeling of comfort...
...selection should be completed not later than January 1 of the year, for which the scholars are elected. Scholar select will begin residence at Oxford in the following October...
...next appointments will be made in October, 1919. The Scholarships will be paid in quarterly installments: the first on beginning residence at Oxford, and thereafter terminally, provided that the college to which any scholar may belong be satisfied with his work and conduct. The Student is to support himself in the summer of this scholarship...