Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Andrews, coming from the University High School of Minneapolis, Minn., was business manager of the school annual, an editor of the school paper, and a member of the school debating team. He is also a Conant scholar...
Hueneken attended St. Paul Academy in Minnesota, was editor of the school paper, a member of the school debating team, and ranked first in his class. He is now a Conant scholar...
...Duke of Alba intimated to an American Scholar who visited him while travelling through Spain, that the government wished to have certain art objects of national importance returned, among which was the Fogg sarcophagus. In return, the Spanish government would give other works of art of equal intrinsic value. This plan, however, was purely unofficial, and before the Duke was able to accomplish anything more definite, his king had been overthrown by the revolution...
From the point of view of Harvard's new ambition to become a truly national institution, the ideal Prize Scholar, after four years in college filled with high scholarship, intellectual training, and also various, broadening, contact-giving outside activities, would return to his home state, become a great man, and be a standing example to Western youth of what that strange and foreign University of the East could provide to them...
...seems, without any reflection on the present group of scholars, that in the future they should be selected more frankly and deliberately according to the indirect ends they are to serve. Any scholar who stays in the East after his college course, any scholar who has no ambition, any scholar who does not see and accept his responsibility to his state and to Harvard in receiving the scholarship, serves the final end of the new policy not a whit. Letters, interviews, recommendations, prep school grades, and examinations all should continue to be used in choosing the candidates...