Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the point of view of Harvard's new ambition to become a truly national institution, the ideal Prize Scholar, after four years in college filled with high scholarship, intellectual training, and also various, broadening, contact-giving outside activities, would return to his home state, become a great man, and be a standing example to Western youth of what that strange and foreign University of the East could provide to them...
...secretaries. Frequently on the platform or before the microphone, he is proud to be called Bryanesque, speaks with a slight German accent, likes to tell how, as an undergraduate at Harvard, he won a $100 public speaking prize which he had to go to court to collect, because his scholarship stipulated he was to receive no other aid. A tome of 504 pages, For Better, Not For Worse surveys the whole of marriage and many another subject in the practiced manner of a platform denouncer. Dr. Maier quotes from such sources as Dancing Master William P. Rivers, Raymond Duncan, Proverbs...
...Episcopal Church is St. Paul's at Concord, N. H. Haughtily independent, St. Paul's recognizes no traditional rival, takes part in no sports with other schools. Yet its fame rests more upon the hockey players it sends to Harvard, Yale and Princeton than upon its scholarship. Its academic aim has been stated by Arthur Stanwood Pier, its official historian, as "teaching boys to think like other people."* Over this rugged, if not particularly intellectual, school presides as rector and headmaster the Rev. Dr. Samuel Smith Drury. Dr. Drury is a tall, stern man with a powerful, sonorous...
...specific purposes for which Harvard University seeks to increase its resources are, in my judgment, wise. Princeton shares President Conant's views regarding the necessity at this time of emphasizing the unity as well as the specialization of knowledge. The course of scholarship has proceeded along lines of greater and greater subdivision of subject matter. This was necessary and is bound to continue, but in our enthusiasm for more information we have neglected the need for integration and synthesis. Great minds are required for the task. Small minds may unearth new details but only great minds can weave new patterns...
Thirty Freshmen who entered this fall with high academic records have been rewarded with scholarships totalling $10,000. These are given from the University Scholarship Fund. Those who received the awards...