Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Consequently, it was only in the spring of 1940 that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, upon the recommendation of Dean Hanford and other administrative leaders, voted to take action against any undergraduate using the services of a commercial tutoring school. Similar action had been taken for scholarship students three years earlier because, Dean Hanford explained, "We had more control over them." But it was still too early for such a regulation and there were flagrant violations...
Bundy stressed that the Faculty's $85,000,000 endowment, large as it is, consists chiefly of restricted funds hat cannot be used where they are most needed. Additional money is therefore needed to provide or such existing College expenses as Faculty salaries, scholarship funds, and classroom and housing space, he said...
...been called "the foremost of the logically trained men of our day," and has received numerous honorary degrees from universities throughout the Western World, Just as his interests are not confined to his work, however, his work itself is not limited to one tiny niche in the world of scholarship. In an era of ultra-concentration, Jaeger can truthfully say that he has "avoided specialization by having more than one specialty...
...year career a host of publications (29 entries in the Widener catalogue) that are all admirable and nearly all different. Probably his best known works is Aristotle: Fundamentals of the History of His Development, a book which he published at the age of 35 and which revolutionized all Aristotelian scholarship, and set the context for virtually everything that has since been written on the subject. Characteristically, however, Jaeger looks back on the book less with pride than with a sort of parental indulgence. "I was young then," he explains, "and wanted to tear down tradition wherever I found...
...courses. Most Faculty members were either finishing up summer research, enjoying the end of their vacation, or dismally planning this year's lectures. Two Faculty members, however, were doing something different. Harold J. Berman, professor of Law, and Richard N. Frye, associate professor of Middle Eastern Studies, were combining scholarship with unique vacations--in Soviet Russia...