Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been, the label frankly attached to many members of the department. Men steeped in learning and recognized as authorities in their field may often, through no tangible fault of their own, leave a group of students completely unmoved. Here in its bluntest form is Harvard's increasingly troublesome dilemma: scholarship and teaching, may they somehow get together! The tutors as well as the instructors have been hit on this score, and some steps must be taken by the German department to recognize this ever more vital aspect of instruction...
...work and opened their minds. He has blistered the incompetent with his scorn and brought shame to the cheeks of the ill-mannered or the inconsiderate. To those with inquiring minds he has pointed out roads which they have followed with happiness in succeeding years. With the hammer of scholarship and the tongs of wit he has beaten the plays of Shakespeare into the reluctant minds of adolescence...
...fruit of months of painstaking research, the report of the Student Council's Scholarship Committee deserves the attention of all who are connected with Harvard's student aid policy. In its mature interpretation of facts and data which cover the whole range of the scholarship question, the Committee has done the college a vital service and has shown, as well, the useful work of which the Council, when it exerts itself, is capable...
...recommendations of the Council Committee are carried out, the whole scholarship system will become increasingly valuable, and men more fit for responsibility will be produced. To those whose time and effort went into the report should go the appreciation of the whole college...
...scholarship, I remember walking with him into the cathedral library in Exeter when he demanded that the librarian show him the famous Exeter Book, an Anglo-Saxon classic and great literary treasure nearly 700 years old. Before the librarian, Rev. Dr. Bishop, could produce the book from the safe, my friend repeated its first hundred lines in Anglo-Saxon entirely from memory, sweeping the librarian quite off his feet with astonishment...