Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gurney professor of English Literature, "Kitty" to many Harvard generations, picks up his books and papers from the platform desk in Harvard 6, and, lecturing all the while to his English 22 class, walks slowly down the aisle, it will mark the end of an era in American scholarship...
Gibson, who won the Ames Scholarship last fall, is on the Undergraduate Tercentenary Committee as well as an editor of the CRIMSON...
Melone is at present chairman of the Eliot House Committee, has won several important awards for scholarship in his three years here, and is also an editor of the CRIMSON...
...light away from the graduates and scholars that make up the bulk of the participants. But this should not change the character of the proceedings from a meeting of learned men to a stamping ground of political compaigners. The rigors of the presidential race will leave the field to scholarship once the official benediction has been bestowed. No one need fear that the Senate will break up the celebration by recognizing Harvard's historic significance on the American scene, though the metropolitan press may regard the Tercentenary theatre as the seat of a war between Congress and the Corporation...
This remarkable state of affairs seems to be the result of a policy based upon a misguided conception of the relative worth of teaching and scholarship. The department of Physics is supposed to teach Physics; at the same time, it appears, its function is to engage in exhaustive research work. At the moment, all its energies are directed toward the latter end. In theory, men are engaged for their teaching ability and their qualifications as research men. Actually, if a man has any teaching ability to begin with, he had best smother it at once if he expects to linger...