Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Wendell was a great gentleman in every sense of the word, with a touch of old world courtliness about him. You somehow felt in his presence that here was a scholar who was welcomed at the Sorbonne, at Oxford and Cambridge, whose writings had brought him friends and honor, and honor, too, to his University, in distant lands: who knew the literati of the world and was their peer...
Professor Wendell's memory lives on in the hearts of many Harvard men, who will always be grateful to the University for having given them the friendship of a great scholar and a great gentleman. PAULDING BROWN '14. February...
...there is a very real danger that the furnishing of other and really adventitious stimuli will result in encouraging a certain unworthy charlatanism. For my part 1 believe that, as things are, scholarship receives all the "recognition" that it deserves or wants. Your true scholar has always been, and doubtless will continue to be, content to keep the noiseless tenor of his way without (to mix the quotations) making himself a motley to the view. F. N. ARUIN...
...Lowell's recent report. As long as athletics and publications play the leading roles in undergraduate life, it will be difficult for a man who excels in neither of these fields to obtain the highest recognition; but many minor aids can be given to raise the position of the scholar in the college. One of these would be to provide the caps and gowns of members of Phi Beta Kappa with a distinguishing mark similar to the red tassel of the class officers...
...gown is fundamentally the raiment of the scholar, and so it seems essentially fitting that the leading scholars should wear a special token of their accomplishment. Such a change could easily be put in effect at once by the Class Day Committee. It would serve a real purpose in the college as the distinguishing mark of the scholar...