Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proctors who are to occupy the Yard and other dormitories next fall, the University shows evidence that it has again attempted to secure an excellent staff to fill these much coveted positions. The selection of the sixteen new proctors is characterized by a nice discrimination between the scholar and the athlete, nor has the prominent man benefited to the exclusion of the less well-known individual. Likewise the inclusion of several non-Harvard graduates shows that President Conant's policy of geographical representation is being followed in the proctorial as well as undergraduate sphere...
Much more difficult is the second problem, making a Harvard education desirable to the outstanding schoolboy. President Conant, in attempting to abolish the supremacy of the "Harvard" type student over the more nationally representative scholar, representative in geography as well as in wealth, has done nothing to remove these antithetical classes. He merely proposes to put those on the bottom onto the top, leaving the lazy-industrious, grinding-brilliant, and privileged-deserving dichotomies intact. There is every reason to believe that far from blending with and stimulating "the 50-percent of the student body . . . called the Harvard community" the stipended...
...principle of "divide et impera" is to guide the economics of the Conant Plan, why should it not be tried in the educational sphere? Is the new and versatile faculty man, intent on making Harvard a national university by developing the talents of the scholar-group of students, to waste his energies, in the age-old way, prodding the "Harvard Community" along. The traditional compromise in lecture hall and class room between the tortoise and the rabbit must be abandoned...
...teaching, research, and leadership, does not wish to dispense with the average man, who has done well-enough in school to warrant his presence at Harvard, and whose term-bills are an invaluable contribution. Europe again offers a solution, a way out of the wasteful "three-legged" partnership between scholar and dunce in their race for a degree. Aside from the vociferous backing of the Harkness Hoot, the two-degree system has attracted many prominent educators. If a more intensive and expensive curriculum is to be established both in courses and tutorial work, for the scholar nucleus; a less-arduous...
...silver trophy rather than a tablet on the Union which will commemorate the late Henry Pennypacker '88, former chairman of the Committee on Admissions. The trophy, which is to be the gift of the Class of 1937, will be awarded yearly, commencing in 1935, to the leading scholar--athlete of the Freshman Class...