Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have sat uneasy saddles, galloping for & against Japan but galloping chiefly for themselves, are in for a new regime at Peiping with every trapping of intellectual subtlety and elegance. Today Chinese students have less use for either than they had in the days when Wu Pei-fu was mastering scholarship and the composition of fragile poems on expensive paper with a jade-handled ink brush...
Lewis Warren had come of old Colonial stock, both sides of his family boasting ancestors who barely missed the Mayflower. As early as 1914 his father, Charles Howard Warren, socialite treasurer of the billion-dollar Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York, gave Yale a scholarship for some boy like his late son. In 1924 he obtained Yale's promise to accept more such scholarships when he died. Surprised was Yale last week to learn that Father Warren, who died in November, had left it not two or three more scholarships but an estate estimated...
...responsible for four fields, a student might choose two, and under tutorial guidance make a complete and invigorating study of those. In place of the H. G. Wells "Outline of History" aspect of the past and present the student would achieve genuine knowledge from his work in concentration, and scholarship would revert more nearly to its true meaning...
...that, helps against too great provincialism. Also, in spite of the probably correct opinion of the scholars that Harvard is not yet a National Institution, they agree that they "get a lot out of it", and enjoy it besides. These goods are directly and immediately produced by the new scholarship policy. But without the indirect effects of advertisement, the good to Harvard as an institution ends with the influence on twenty scholars per year, and that, considering the expense, is small utility...
...more frankly and deliberately according to the indirect ends they are to serve. Any scholar who stays in the East after his college course, any scholar who has no ambition, any scholar who does not see and accept his responsibility to his state and to Harvard in receiving the scholarship, serves the final end of the new policy not a whit. Letters, interviews, recommendations, prep school grades, and examinations all should continue to be used in choosing the candidates, but the end must be always and frankly in view...