Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...supper at tables to be set up in the Smith quadrangle. During dinner there will be a concert by the Freshman Glee, Mandolin, and Banjo Clubs at the conclusion of which a cup will be presented to the winning Hall Chorus by President Lowell. At this time the Scholarship offered by the Sophomore class to the Freshman judged most outstanding both athletically and scholastically, will be awarded by W. G. Saltonstall...
...reminded that politics bear little relation to scholarship, that the men who urge it are seldom scholars, and that the people on whom they depend are much less so. Political agitation, manoeuvering, and conviction depend largely upon impression. Sometimes in the higher reaches of legislative or executive activity, a particular politician acquires personal prestige enough to translate a careful program into law. But in such things as managing a national convention, one must look out for the careless prejudices of the nation at large...
...just this companionable institution which Mr. S. E. Morrison '08, who is possessed of the love of Oxford University, charges with contributing to the low place of scholarship in American colleges. Writing in the current Alumni Bulletin, he contrasts the Oxford man's unwillingness to share his room with the American horror of living alone...
That the desire for companionship has any considerable effect on the standards of scholarship would seem to be a hazardous contention. True, on a warm May evening, mutual restlessness often sends room-mates off to cyclonic or thunderbolting haunts...
...individuals chosen to contribute to the vital functioning of a group striving to realize certain group ideals and aims; should be required not only to possess the requisite ability to harmonize with the group, but also the potentialities which may be developed by that cooperation in living and scholarship which is a university...