Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past, between $1500 and $3000 has been raised by Drumbeats. This year, Miss Rolnick hopes to make at least $3000 for Grant-in-Aid, a fund which gives money to Radcliffe students active in the college, whose marks prevent them from receiving other scholarship...
Peart's oratory-aimed at preventing ratification of the education committee's report as part of the next Labor platform -ignored facts that, as a minority member of the education committee, he knew as well as his listeners. Scholarship programs ensure public-school education for brilliant sons of the poor; and while the fee-charging schools have always been centers of privilege, snobbery is less important than the fact that they provide Britain's best pre-university education...
...herd-running Organization Man, Sociologists Theodore Cap-low and Reece J. McGee examine the rush as it is run at ten unnamed major universities. The authors of The Academic Marketplace (Basic Books; $4.95) find schools and scholars ridden with intrigue and lustful for prestige, often indifferent to teaching and scholarship...
...most part, not important. Sample quotes from hiring committees: 1) "The biggest thing is that other people think well of him." 2) "They're supposed to be able to teach, I guess." 3) "Our requirements are purely mathematical; no one gives a damn if you can teach." Scholarship appears to count for little more; the weight of scholarly articles is tallied, but seldom, committee members admitted, are the articles read. More than one university confessed that a socially presentable wife is one of the scholarly attributes it looks...
Jonathan Kozol's book, published today, is a book for those freshmen and us other adolescents who figure sometimes we're not getting the most out of life. Now Mr. Kozol, despite his current tenure of a Rhodes Scholarship, is no Norman Vincent Peale selling deodorant in the locker-room. Indeed, his skillful fantasy, like most recent Harvard fiction, will not notably amuse the accountants over at the 'Program for Harvard College...