Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pages, Edgar Johnson's critical biography of Charles Dickens is the definitive treatment of Dickens only in the sense that a vacuum cleaner is the definitive treatment for a rug. Seven years of earnest scholarship together with access to much fresh Dickens material have enabled Biographer Johnson to pick up every fact worth knowing about his hero. As biography, his book is complete, conscientious and fleetingly dramatic. As criticism, it is a hothanded fan letter posing as a balance sheet. Constant prose transfusions from Dickens keep the book alive, and for the rest, the author relies on a quality...
...American soccer player and intercollegiate squash champion Charlie Ufford has received the Francis Hardon Burr Scholarship as the outstanding scholar-athlete in the Class of 1953, it was announced yesterday...
...scholarship, won last year by Olympic figure skating champion Dick Button, is awarded to the member of the graduating class "who best combines the qualities of scholarship, leadership, character, and athletic ability...
...scholarship was established in memory of Francis H. Burr '09, first marshal of his class and captain of the football team. He died a year after his graduation. Besides playing four years on the football squad, he also played one year on the baseball team...
...twins, majoring in commerce and 'finance, hold up the scholarship end well enough. Their current grades: three As and a B apiece. They have been upholding their athletic reputations even better since the first day they walked into the gym. Their biggest thrill: a charity game last year when they handed the famed professional Harlem Globetrotters their first defeat in 77 games, with Johnny scoring 43 points...