Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rhodes Scholar and First Marshal Cliff F. Thompson will lead the Class of 1956 into Sever Quadrangle at 10:30 a.m. for the traditional Class Day exercises, the graduates' farewell to Harvard College...
Thompson, former president of the CRIMSON, will be aided by Second Marshal and 1955 football captain William M. Meigs, of Adams and Syracuse, and Third Marshal and track captain Arthur G. Siler, of Winthrop and Orinda, Calif. Siler is also a Rhodes Scholar...
Chiang, a leading Asian writer-illustrator, spoke on the subject of "The Chinese Painter." Chiang compared the present state of culture to that of the 19th century, when Ralph Waldo Emerson, in his essay "The American Scholar," called for an independent culture...
...since, rising through the Ph.D. treadmill ("The most expensive and least luxurious club in the world") and then through the ranks to his present position as dean of the graduate faculties. A tall, slender, willowy man of 48, he remains what he has always been-a brilliant, courtly, unruffable scholar whose whole life seems to be his work. Few besides his most intimate friends have met his wife, the former Mariana Lowell of Boston, or been inside his book-filled apartment in Manhattan's East 80s, or met his nine-year-old daughter Isabel, or two sons, James...
These committeees perform three func- tion. The "recruiting" one, whose importance varies directly with the Club's distance from Cambridge, now concerns intellectually promising high school students who would not ordinarily apply to Harvard. (Of course, a good scholar is not disqualified if he also happens to play fullback.) Generally more important is the screening role that the Club members play, interviewing local applicants to the College and relaying their evaluations to the Admission Office in Cambridge. Thirdly, the Club committees actually raise funds--a national total of $70,000 last year--to endow College scholarships for deserving local students...