Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dartmouth has a new plan to meet the perplexing problem of limited enrollment. The idea of separating the sheep from the goats is admirable, but just how to go about it is no easy task. As in the schemes advanced at Princeton last spring, the value of the scholar is recognized at once, for at Dartmouth "the man of exceptional scholastic ability will always be admitted without question". But from here on the problem loses its simplicity. Admit the scholars--a group, alas, none too numerous; what next...
...tempted to distort this small offense into a sign of the world's decay, and to philosophize thereon--"O tempora! O mores!" But let it suffice to point out why the slight on Widener especially is deplorable. The Library stands as a memorial, the cenotaph of a young scholar and enthusiast of books. By this simple yet significant act, the uncovering of the head, we pay our humble respect to his memory...
...festivities I am charged to bring the greetings of the older eastern universities. But the message that I bear to this great seat of learning, of congratulation for the work that it has done, of confidence in that which it will do, is shared by every college and every scholar in the land. No different greeting can be brought where all must think alike...
...President Lowell for Rhodes Scholarships at Oxford. Whether they will actually win the Scholarships will depend upon the action of the state committees of selection which have the final authority. In each of thirty-two states on December 3 a state committee of selection will pick one Rhodes Scholar for 1922-23 from among the candidates nominated by the heads of various colleges and universities...
...first meeting of the Modern Language Conference to be held this evening at 8 o'clock in Conant Common Room. Professor C. H. Grandgent '83 will speak on "Dante, Philosopher and Scholar." The meeting will be open to members of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...