Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...current craze for the day's news in tabloid has lately invaded the precincts hitherto ruled by scholarship unchallenged, and has given us history, literature, philosophy, and even the sum of man's knowledge packed between the covers of single volumes for the enrichment and delectation of those who wish to become educated in nine days. An examination of the table of contents of Mr. Parsons' book might lead one to believe that it is just another by product of the boiling-down of the elements of the story of the earth. But it is in reality more than that...
...estate of the athlete. The unfortunate fact is that to attack either is the very height of unsportsmanlike penplay, for both are recumbent antagonists. Under the sufficient title "Fools Trespass Where Angeles Keep Off the Grass" Mr. Slocum has chosen to defend the outside activity from the snares of scholarship, as symbolized in the man who, according to him, never wears a wristwatch...
...determined only through experience. As to the dangers which this plan is liable to involve such as the advent of a time "when Yale men will wade into Paradise Lost for the greater glory of Yale" or the introduction of "the evils of spectacular athletic competition into scholarship" there should be little cause for worry. The want of "a good stage manager" and the "element of personal contact" should be enough to guarantee against the commercialization of scholarship or the fostering of a desire to win by any methods rather than to learn through sound study. At worst the series...
...Quadwrangler approves of the arrangement as he approves of any device calculated to put more emphasis on either scholarship or intellectual ability or both. But to imagine that such tests will command continued public attention is to give the public too much credit. The public is not interested, you might even say that students generally are not interested, in any combat where the element of personal contact is lacking. It will go to football games and hockey games because it loves to be present when body hits body with a resounding thud. Some of it will go to debates because...
When weighing the publication in the scales of preparation for life it were unfair to place scholarship itself in the other scalepan. The undergraduate attitude at Harvard is a nebulous thing on many points, but not on this one. And since the ghost of the Big-Man-in-His-Class shows only a periodic taste for walking, it seems fair to believe that Harvard undergraduate publications offer the same reward as any other serious, nonathletic outside activity of college life: experience with human beings...