Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four universities, Harvard, Columbia, Chicago and the University of California at Berkley, will each have two different men each year for a five year period. The plan is called the Inter-University Visiting Scholar Program...
...continue to produce classically educated gentlemen of leisure who will not be concerned with money or being men of affairs, but who read the classics for delight, and form a background absolutely necessary for a living university." Anything but a snob, he seems to mean this more as a scholar than as a gentleman...
Such research, annually amounting to millions of dollars granted primarily by foundations, is traditionally one of the key aspects of the University's educational operation. Aside from its role as a function of the scholar's normal intellectual curiosity, however, continuous original research has become an important criterion for teaching on the Harvard Faculty. Yet despite the heavy burdens imposed thereby on Harvard's teaching personnel, the University has thus far taken little responsibility for fostering and underwriting original research...
...first of these is the Scholar of the House program, in which courses are optional for a group of about twelve exceptional seniors. They hold biweekly meetings, and read papers to each other, while pursuing reading and writing under the guidance of a person who is equivalent to a tutor...
Yale uses these forms of independent study to work for realization of President A. Whitney Griswold's hope that "just as democracy puts the fulfillment of opportunity up to its citizens, the new Yale College program puts the fulfillment of opportunity up to its students." The Scholar of the House program goes further, but both support Griswold's idea that for "the student of unusual maturity and ability... nothing short of maximum challenge will evoke a maximum response...