Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More of the requirements for tutors have to do with personality than with scholarship. A man who is particularly well appearing and who has some prowess as a college athlete or who has been engaged in some from of University activity is much more esteemed as a tutor than a man whose activities have been chiefly scholastic It is true also that many people who are engaging tutors feel that mere scholastic ability is not of the highest merit. They are mostly interested in a person of a strong, virile personality, who can inspire as well as teach, than they...
Today is the last day upon which applications for nomination to the Charles H. Fiske Scholarship will be received. The scholarship, carries with it a year's study at Trinity College, Cambridge, England. All applications should be sent to President Lowell's office in 5 University Hall...
...Harvard Legal Aid Bureau is a Massachusetts corporation whose members are second and third year students in the Harvard Law School, and are elected on the basis of scholarship. The Bureau is chartered for the purpose of giving legal aid and assistance to deserving persons. In consequence, members of the Bureau are entitled to practice law in any of the courts of the Commonweatlh without having previously gained admission...
...incongruous place now occupied by the A. M. degree has recently occasioned' much discussion among educators. Unlike the situation at English universities where it forms the crown of undergraduate study the master's degree has never had any definite standing among American universities. And since the widening scope of scholarship has intensified specialization, extended research work has come to be considered a necessity. Consequently the Ph.D. has superseded it as the general goal of graduate study. Because of this the master's degree has been reduced to the dubious position of a half-way house between dilletantism and scholarship...
...college career. The average freshman set adrift in the larger seas of college and university life falls a ready victim of the banalities of collegiatism and athleticism, and slides along a year or two, treating his courses as a necessary evil. And it is only after long exposure to scholarship that a Faustian thirst for knowledge begins to inflame...