Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bullitt described Harbage as a man who best combines "the abilities of an admirable teacher and a good scholar...
...Harvard's academic standards become tougher, the number of admissable--let alone attractive--athletes gets smaller in relation to the rest of the population. When a top "scholar-athlete" is captured by the Big Ten, another Massachusetts college, or even one of the less fussy Ivy League schools, there is that much less material available for a Harvard team. If no other college recruited, or if Harvard's drawing power in small town high schools were as great as it is at Exeter, there would be no problem...
...more self-righteously, high-mindedly closed a mind than that of a nonconformist," writes 38-year-old Morris Freedman, longtime freelance writer (New Republic, Harper's) and associate professor of English at the University of New Mexico. Freedman's complaint, published in the Phi Beta Kappa American Scholar: nonconformism is getting to be more orthodox than conformism, especially among intellectuals in college communities and in the publishing, advertising and entertainment professions. "The nonconformists are right," says Freedman, when they accuse the majority of mass thinking and responses. "Yet it may easily be shown that the self-elected nonconformists...
...college conflicts with our half-conscious image of higher learning, with our portrait of the academic world in contrast and conflict with the materialistic marketplace. Yet if we look carefully we will see that the university is actually an extended preparation for the marketplace, and that the scholar is in fact the last rugged individualist. Today's professor inherits from the merchant prince and the captain of industry, not from the bespectacled dreamer of myth and joke...
...this emphasis on individual work and achievement makes the scholar peculiarly fitted to act as social elevator boy in modern society. Parents who seeks paths by which their children can transcend the increasingly rigid stratification of American society have discovered that education is practically the only road to the top. Only in the schools can the youngster learn to prefer competition and success to complacency and group approval. And only by succeeding in school can he convince the marketplace that he has the talents it demands. Indeed, the symbolic degree has become so important that even those born...