Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first meeting of the Modern Language Conference will be held in Conant Common Room, Monday evening at 8 o'clock. Professor C. H. Grandgent '83 will address the meeting and have as his subject "Dante: Philosopher and Scholar...
Whether or not one considers himself a "scholar in political economic or military history" the later addition to the War Library just be of unusual interest. What was going on the Berlin about mid-summer of 1914 and what went on thereafter is a question whose answer appeals to a man who knows the war only in part from personal experience, as most of us do. The War Library has now first hand evidence of some of Germany's proceedings. We all fell like looking into the packing cases just arrived...
...real interest of such documents is of course for the scholar who can untangle and sort out the facts into a history of what did happen. The War Library is distinctly unusual feature of the University but it establishment was a natural addition to Widener. One of the reason why Harvard's library ranks at the top is that it concerned not only with musty documents of bygone times. Its policy of being concerned with the present as well as the past will undoubtedly make it responsible for some interesting additions to the literature of the near future...
...plan outlined seems to lay primary stress on examination grades, for the Princetonian advocates a system whereby "all who pass the entrance examinations with an average grade of, say, 80 or 85', should be admitted without further examination, providing, of course, they are of good moral character." If enough scholars applied the enrollment limit might be reached but the fact is that most of us are too dull to enter so easily. Although the university's aim may be to mould men, under this plan the scholar is still given the place of honor...
...Sachs Research Fellowship, which is the most valuable single fellowship at the University and is awarded to a scholar of proved ability to enable him to do advanced work in fine arts in any part of the world, has been awarded for next year to Richard Offner, who studied here some ten years ago, took his doctor's degree at Vienna, and has recently been teaching in the fine arts at the University of Chicago...