Word: scholares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the military was a stint in the Army on the Mexican border in 1916, another stint in the Navy during World War I. He thought about becoming a professional baseball pitcher (he had a wicked spit-ball), but he kept his eye on the law. Always a top scholar, he passed the bar examinations a year before he finished at the University of Tennessee's law school. One of his first jobs in a law office, like the assignment that brought him onto the national scene, had to do with an investigation. He was an older attorney...
...will not seek a near but a distant objective and you will not be satisfied with what you have done. All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern which from his separate approach every true scholar is striving to descry...
There are great advantages in the small college--advantages which the large college can not hope to have, try as it may to achieve them in part. Most appealing of these ordinarily is the intimate relationship and friendship of the scholar with his teacher...
...very fact that they exist pose problems of selection which an undergraduate in an ordinary four-year college never faces. With such opportunities the Harvard undergraduate finds interests which he never suspected existed and which in large measure help to develop him as a scholar and as an individual...
During the ceremonies 14 students received individual awards for achievement in the past year. Rhodes Scholar Eliot D. Hawkins '54 won the Shannon Medal as "the Cadet in the Senior Class who has attained the highest academic standing." Other Army award winners included Brian F. Reynolds '54, Michael Levinson '55 and William Zwilling...