Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact," says the Rev. Gustave Weigel, S.J., professor of ecclesiology at Maryland's Woodstock College, "that in the United States, where the Catholics form something between a fifth [and] a third of the population, the proportion of Catholics in American scholarship is nowhere near the overall figure." Why is it that, aside from theology, American Catholics have made such a comparatively small contribution to U.S. scholarship? In the current University of Notre Dame quarterly, The Review of Politics, Jesuit Weigel gives his answer: "The general Catholic community in America does not know what scholarship...
Another exception to the rule that the best scholar is the best teacher concerns the creative artist. There are already, in the English Department, men solely concerned with writing rather than scholarship who will probably stay at Harvard for years without ever becoming professors...
...these men are challenging and often inspiring. The Departments are usually too rigidly committed to the idea that what is best for the scholar is best for Harvard and forget or are afraid to admit that scholarship is not the only worthwhile creative pursuit. As a result, artists and authors are more apt to visit Harvard for a year and give extra-curricular talks, rather than courses where their ideas can be given a closer discussion and where students can exchange ideas with the artist...
...rigid conformity to scholarship goes back further than the recommendations for tenure. It is the teaching fellows, usually second or third-year graduate students, who have the greatest contact with the undergraduate, and who are at the same time subject to the greatest academic-scholastic pressures. When their promotions are considered, their teaching record is considered, but it hardly the determining factor. They realize that the good scholar will probably gain the instructorship, rather than the very good teacher...
...there is a third type of student, who is immediately inhibited by grades, courses and the other IBM-directed trivia of Harvard education. He wants to study some problem deeply, but does not because he feels he must make high marks in all courses, for the sake of the Scholarship Committee, or for a graduate school, or for his parents...