Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then news comes from the educational stockade which cheers us with the certainty that the world does move. What excites us at the moment is the report that a certain poet and scholar of our acquaintance has made a choice which if we were engineers we should calculate in the foot-pounds of inertia overcome--that is, if we were competent at dealing with large figures. This poet and scholar has long had the fate to be efficient in university administration: he could make one pink card do what two blue cards had done before; he could chart the careers...
This sounds like a perfect remedy. But it seems a little too delightfully simple; for one thing it assumes as common an ability for organization possessed only by the high scholar. Furthermore it does not recognize the fact that hour exams and weekly tests, however annoying they may be at the time, do not appreciably increase the total work required in a course. A certain amount of studying must be done; from one point of view it makes little difference whether it be done in lumps or all at once...
...review of the latest volume of Professor Channing's History of the United States. The reviewer, from his point of vantage in the real world of affairs, has seen fit to criticize not only the book but the author as being under the influence of the "academic scholar" point of view. Not content with this rebuke he proceeds to the startling generality that Harvard intellectually is in the stagnant backwaters. "Some who have their doubts", says he, "as they look upon the fresh waters flowing by their college, doors, may remember that a professorship at Harvard is the academic kingdom...
...Interscholastic Scholarship Trophy is a large bronze tablet portraying the figure of a scholar, and is inscribed each year with the name of the winning school. It was first awarded in 1915, and at the end of ten years will go permanently to the school which has won it most often during that period. Springfield now leads, having won it three times. The Country Day School of Boston, St. Mark's, and Hotchkiss have each won it once, and now Kent is added to the list of winners...
Although John Harvard was not actually the founder of the University, his interest in the college which had been established at Newtowne and his bequest to it made possible the existence of the University as it is today. John Harvard was an English scholar, who earned his bachelor's and master's degree, at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, England. He came to Massachusetts in 1637, and almost immediately donated his library and half of his estate to the college which had been established by order of the General Court. Shortly afterwards the colony failed to do even a portion...