Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Diploma is awarded to a member of the graduating class and the Fay Scholarship goes to an outstanding scholar in the first year class. The income for these awards is derived from a gift in memory of Jonathan Fay A.B. 1778 and his son Samuel...
Harris won several prizes as an undergraduate, among them being the Scholar Prize and the Union prize in 1928. This year he was awarded the Dante prize out of a large field of competitors...
...fear of being too easy, the English Department has placed its emphasis on stupidity. In its desire to penalize the lazy scholar, it has penalized the man of intelligence. It has made itself a rigid schoolmaster for the stupid and the uninterested, forgetting the education is for the clever. In order to make sure that a few men won't get through college without working, the English Department has degenerated to secondary school methods, and discouraged the able...
...become romantic than that of Anne and George the First. The gay, corrupt life pictured in "The Beggar's Opera", when Walpole talked of a man and his price, and nobody's virtue was over-nice lends itself admirably to a bit of rich imaginative writting by a scholar who knows the period and its people and can see through the eyes of a contemporary...
...Sherwin has tried to put on the screen a real moving picture of this life, taking John Gay as his central figure. Evidently a scholar whose acquaintance with his material has not been gained solely in text-books and Hogarth's prints, he has tried to set down some of the more intimate aspects of the life of the day, and has succeeded to a certain extent. If the reader himself has a vivid imagination, he may put Mr. Sherwin's pictures in his mind's eye and build up out of them a fine scene of rum and riot...