Word: scholares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seems no longer quite the daring place it once was. In 1958 Harvardman ('31) Riesman will return to his alma mater as its first Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, a chair that was set up to enliven the undergraduate intellectual fare by giving an especially distinguished scholar a "roving commission" to explore and teach as freely as he wants...
Actually, it took an American to beat the Americans. G. E. Putnam, a giant displaced Kansan, a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, won the hammer for the only British win in this event, which was dropped after the following meet...
...addition, they had a brute of a man, M. C. Nokes, who was heavily-favored to win the hammer. However, their best hurdler, George Trowbridge, a Rhodes Scholar from Princeton, was felled by an acute attack of appendicitis...
...greater stress on creativity at this moment, feel that Fogg should be converted to a professional art school. Such an arrangement seems to have no place as part of a liberal arts program. The feeling, rather, is that an education in art which ignores creativity is incomplete from the scholar's point of view as well as the artist...
These men were all dissatisfied with the American system of qualification for degrees, especially as it affects the exceptional scholar. In our graduate schools, Lowell wrote, "we have developed into a mass production of mediocrity." Elsewhere, arguing more specifically in favor of a Society of Fellows, he said, "I do not want to depreciate the Ph.D., but to diminish it as the sole road to teaching in an institution of higher learning. Nor do I wish to diminish the study for the Ph.D., but to provide an alternative path more suited to the encouragement of the rare and independent genius...