Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Something About Students . . .," the first essay, section man Morton Levine complains that Harvard students are more concerned with originality than they are with scholarship. (If this be true, there are many, verily, hordes, who have wasted the best years of their lives in the stacks of Widener--studying.) In place of "an ethical commitment to thoroughness and an esthetic which values craftsmanship in research and writing" there exists "a straining for originality and chic...
Jaeger's best-known works are Aristotle: Fundamentals of the History of His Development, which revolutionized Aristotelian scholarship 35 years ago, and Paideia, a three-volume study of the ideals of Greek culture...
Bill plans a career in research, probably in mathematics, physics or chemistry, has his choice of General Motors or National Merit Scholarship to pay his way next fall at Harvard. He does not date ("I'm not quite ready for that yet"), amuses himself with chess, classical records and books (most recent ones: Lord Jim, Of Human Bondage). His passion for mathematics, his favorite scholarly field, came to him early from his father, an engineer who works for the Bureau of Reclamation...
Tall, grey-haired Professor Miller's scholar colleagues are happy about his appointment. "If you turn a scholar into a dean," said one, "you are likely to end up with a frustrated man. Miller knows what's going on in the world of scholarship, but he isn't going to be torn apart...
...University will receive a gift of $2.2 million dollars in the near future, it was learned last week. The generous benefactress is the late Mrs. Truxton Beale, who last month made another, heretofore anonymous $2 million donation to the University scholarship fund...