Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decision of the Committee on Scholarships and Financial Aid to demand only satisfactory academic standings from scholarship holders was one of the most encouraging Administration actions in recent years. However, another part of the scholarship revision also deserves commendation. The newly allotted annual allowance of $2600 instead of $2250 in estimating college expenses helps remedy a long-standing need...
...have appeared in a number of CRIMSON articles, Mr. Bartley's included, is unnecessary. Those who have heard him or read his works know that he shares with the other members of the faculty of the Divinity School and of the University at large an abiding loyalty to critical scholarship. The CRIMSON might do well in the future to set aside its objections to him on religious or philosophical grounds when it purports to take the measure...
...only all embracing tradition to which every member of the University community need assent is the tradition of scholarship. For President Pusey, as for many others, it might seem absurd for a man to be "ultimately concerned" merely with scholarship. But Harvard is not an individual. It is a corporate entity deriving its strength from the fact that its members agree upon a common purpose--the pursuit of their individual visions of truth wherever these may lead. For many, perhaps for most, the search leads to the Christian Revelation of God. But that is the concern not of the University...
...easy to deify such a man, to build up myths that describe his "Olympian" stature. Rather than explaining his prominence, however, colorful fables tend to obscure the true nature of his greatness: devoted scholarship and inspired teaching...
Aside from the immediate influence of his works on the field of letters, Kitteredge helped bring the public to think of scholarship as respectable endeavor, more than a pedant's ocupation. When it was remarked that Widener was "an elephant" among buildings in the yard, he countered, "What if it is? You could destroy all the other Harvard buildings to the northwest and, with Widener left standing, still have a University." For Kittredge, books were humanity recorded...