Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Grades, courses, and the other IBM-directed trivia of Harvard education actually inhibit a third type of student, the individual whose desire to study some problem deeply is thwarted by the feeling that he must make high marks in all courses, for the sake of the Scholarship Committee, or for a graduate school, or for his parents...
...will go through much to prove his merit. He wants to test himself provided he has faith the test is true, and that the quality tried is one that leads to manliness; otherwise he will have none of it. Now, we have not convinced him that high scholarship is a manly thing worthy of his devotion, or that our examinations are faithful tests of intellectual power...
...frequent grading but some feel that the different cultural background of the American makes this impractical. As Monro notes, "people have an awful time shedding their grade consciousness when they get here, after having it through their earlier schooling in the form of report cards, achievement tests, vocational tests, scholarship tests, and College Boards." He points to some high schools where competition for college admission is intense and observes, "This is where the gradefactories really begin...
...first time that able, intense Gabe Pressman has made trouble for the authorities. Touring Europe on a Pulitzer traveling scholarship at 24, Columbia Graduate Pressman tried to crash the trial of Hungarian Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty, was told there were no seats left. He produced pictures showing empty seats in the courtroom and was admitted, one of the two U.S. correspondents at the trial (the other: U.P.'s Ed Korry). Back in the U.S., Pressman got a job as a City Hall reporter for the New York World-Telegram, then, 2½ years ago, joined NBC's Manhattan station...
This record, which of itself must be of greater relevance to the Board's election than those things with which you were concerned, includes Bunker's graduation from Harvard Magna Cum Laude; his election to Phi Beta Kappa; his attending Trinity College, Cambridge, on a Rhodes Scholarship; and the many military honors bestowed upon him both before and after his service as Aide-de-Camp to General MacArthur, including the Distinguished Service Medal and the Legion of Merit. These things, plus the fact that he has attained great success and recognition as a lawyer, as a businessman, as a military...