Word: scholar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...lectures are given twice a week by Professor Pitirim A. Sorokin, and while they are by no means brilliant, Professor Sorokin's foreign accent and eccentric idiosyncrasies often make them both absorbing and amusing. The fact that Professor Sorokin appears to be a real scholar also adds interest. To the student who has no liking for philosophy, or for ideas connoted by such phrases as "intergroup antagonisms, tensions, conflicts," "artistic mentality of a people," "social stratification," unconscious social control," and so forth ad infinitum, the course, and especially the lectures, will be a frightful bore...
...concerns the rigidity of the present concentration requirements, and proposes two types of degrees: one for the scholar who has a real desire to specialize in any one field, and another to the general student, who desires not a specialized acquaintance with any one subject, but a general familiarity with all the knowledge the University has to offer--a generalized "culture," if you will. In the first category would belong those who intend to continue on in post-graduate work--embryonic doctors, engineers, economists, professional sociologists, potential English A instructors. For them, the existing concentration requirements are a necessity...
...Conant that the University shall receive the country's most brilliant young men, regardless of their pecuniary circumstances, and shall inspire these young men with "an enthusiasm for creative scholarship and a respect for the accumulated intellectual treasures of the past." Mr. Conant's concern for the forgotten scholar has already brought about the creation of five prize fellowships designed to tap social and geographical areas not now drawn upon. It is certain that this is but a beginning of the President's plans...
...disturb the student at his desk, to stir him to forget book, to promulgate questionnaires if he is learned, to do other things if he is not, it is time for a movie like the Mystery of Mr. X. It combines the detective thriller which diverts the gray board scholar, with the bill-and-coo whimsy comedy so appropriate to our age, to this season. It is smoothly and skillfully done, at once grisly and delightful; if it leaves some questions unanswered, why ask questions...
...Harvard is to attract the most able scholars, she must have something to offer them. The best are long since through with the preliminaries of a few published documents that should no longer be an essential to advance. They, and the younger men who have not found time to publish, but who have been eager in the new changes in education, must have some incentive to come to Harvard. If ideas of education are changing in one way, they may in another. Promotion to the scholar is a necessity and an interest. The best will not come to a Harvard...