Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Words & Works. Sponsored by the city, the College Entrance Examination Board and the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students, the project is no quick educational cureall. The hope is to try to balance the dragging weight of the children's hard-luck homes with a long-range program of understanding help at school. Project classes are small (range: ten to 28); teachers are carefully briefed on each child's background; the children are taken on after-hours class trips, get repeated personal counseling. At George Washington, stocky, balding Counselor David Schulman, who grew up in Brooklyn...
Increased scholarship stipends will be "considered" for both new freshmen and for upperclassmen in the Houses. However, it has not been definitely decided whether scholarship increases will take up the full burden of the rent hike...
...themselves. But when this desire acts to exclude all but academicians from the advantages of a Harvard education, it becomes extremely dangerous. Currently this desire is producing an unfortunate intensity of academic training. Concurrently, it is producing an undergraduate generation unaware of any public responsibility beyond its responsibility for scholarship...
Under the present circumstances, however, it is impossible for these students to give much of their time to anything beyond scholarship. Inevitably, and probably unintentionally, Harvard has created a community dominated by the academic ethic. The pressure for admissions, the mandatory Honors program without a respectable alternative in non-Honors, the increased course and departmental requirements, the emphasis which graduate schools place on good undergraduate grades, and the scholarly mystique of the University all add up to a trend towards over-academization and against a truly liberal education...
...moment there is too much emphasis on trained skill, whether intentionally on the part of the Administration or inevitably. There is too little emphasis on the exercise of responsible judgment during a student's undergraduate career. More important, "the world" is increasingly becoming the essential, but limited world of scholarship...