Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...complete rules and regulations for the awarding of the Rhodes Scholarships in the United States next October have been announced. Each state and territory is normally entitled to one scholar, but as there were no elections in war time, several states will make two appointments this year. These states are: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Oregon, Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin...
...have a fait that nature will always produce the scholar. Not only will the tradition of him be continued in families, but--and this is certain--new schools will be started to meet the deficiencies of our colleges, and minister to the deeper needs of the age, now that the colleges are shutting up shop...
Henceforth the Japanese students and the scholar from Sweden or china will feel himself to be and will be an important cog in the University machinery. Athletics, class matters, business of undergraduate importance will mean more to him. He will find a new and untouched phase of college life...
Personal sacrifice gives vigor to an university. The trick of professional dignity lies in the secret of poverty, which ensures, among discriminating people, simplicity and refinement. The distinction of frugality is the scholar's bulwark: raise it, and he is at the mercy of the horrid monotony of capitalist vulgarity. A professor is admitted to polite society not by dint of theatre parties and champagne, but simply because bourgeoisie and Philistines are in mortal terror of his intellect. Money-grubbers and little-brothers-to-the-rich feel in his indigence a power which deprives them of breath. It is part...
...student who does something better than the great majority, though it be from inherent ability, power of application, or a co-ordination of the two, there is always honor waiting. To the athlete the "H" is the highest gift within the power of the University; to the scholar it is the Phi Beta Kappa key. The values of the two are not comparable for they represent the final success in very different lines of achievement...