Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Charles Joseph Bonaparte Scholarship, one of the most sought after awards among the 500 which the College annually makes to undergraduates, has been given for the year of 1928-29 to Thomas Arnold McGovern '29, of Schenectady, New York. The award was given to McGovern as the Senior having the highest academic standing in the Department of Government at Harvard...
...Charles Joseph Bonaparte Scholarship is given by Mrs. Ellen C. Bonaparte. The preference in choosing the student to whom the award is to be made is given to students who have demonstrated an interest in the study of American government and who give promise of helping in after life to promote higher standards in government and citizenship. The scholarship is awarded at the end of his Junior year to that member of the class concentrating in Government who, without regard to financial need, has the highest academic standing in that subject...
...most men incompatible with outside activities. The choice between the two must be made; and, as the emphasis on matters academic enlarges, the desire, and indeed the possibility, of participation in the wide field ranging from athletics to music and literary work, is lessened. Unquestionably the verdict for scholarship is a just one. Still, no one yet expects from the college student the singleness, of scholastic purpose teat characterizes the graduate; and the present mean is one beyond which the administration's requirements can go but little without weighing down The scale toward a college life perhaps too strictly academic...
...well for Harvard men to keep their eyes turned towards Columbia. It may well be that President Butler is right and that in endeavoring to arouse undergraduate interest in intellectual activity, Harvard has erred on the side of considering all valuable intellectual activity to fall under head of scholarship...
...though heretofore it has seemed to many impossible thoroughly to do anything intellectual without assuming the title of scholar. It is doubtful if the amount of independent research work done in any undergraduate department can do more than develop the initiative and mental independence of the person involved. Scholarship only becomes dangerous when it centers interest on the piddling detail at the expense of the panorama of truth. Hardly before a man becomes a Ph.D. can he be said to have lost anything of value in the way of breadth...