Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...teacher who had recently moved from upstate New York. Father later transferred to the University of Nebraska, where young Herb was entered after graduation from Lincoln, Neb. high school. Took a liberal arts course, edited the campus Daily Nebraskan, graduated in 1924 with Phi Beta Kappa honors and a scholarship to Yale Law School. At Yale, edited the Law Journal, graduated cum laude...
...often determines the tone of classroom instruction, is chiefly a recital of facts . . . objective, noncontroversial, a record of events. It recounts what happened . . . but often fails to ask why it happened [or] what the meaning is . . . This gets into the realm of opinion, and in this scientific age scholarship and instruction shun the speculative . . . The real issues are frequently sidestepped because no scientific proof is possible...
...history of the Middle Ages in Eastern Europe and the Near East. He has traveled widely in the lands he studies, and he can get around linguistically in Greek, Arabic, Syriac and the Slavonic languages. But, like Trevelyan, he believes that history needs good writing as well as sound scholarship. His History of the Crusades, of which two out of three volumes have now appeared, is the clearest and best treatment of the period yet to appear in English...
Velde also indicated that his group would pay particular attention to the Rhodes Scholarship program. "In previous work for the Un-American Activities Committee, we've had several testi-monies that indicate there is a need to investigate how the Rhodes Scholarships are given out and what happens to the students after they get over there," the Representative explained...
Egan, who was a basketball player at the College in the early '20's, asked for more scholarship rewards to athletes and a system of providing good jobs to help defray expenses and combat the "salaries" offered by other colleges...