Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dodds agrees with Mr. 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 is not more opinion, for a realistic study of the experiences of scholarship holders who are forced to earn a considerable part of their expenses has brought to light case after case of men who are in distress. Some are too burdened with outside work to fulfill the high promise of their earlier years. Some, failing to keep their scholastic average up to the minimum level required of scholarships, are deprived of this assistance and forced to abandon, for a time at least, their scholarly careers. Some keep their studies above the minimum level only at a strain that...
...most striking aspect of the new scholarship arrangement is the apparent readiness of the Harvard officials to grant awards as they should be granted--as prizes for proven ability regardless of wealth or poverty. The new 'roving professorships', as President Conant calls them, are based upon a conviction that the advancement of knowledge depends largely on bridging the traditional gaps between subjects and departments...
...German universities of 1820, and it was Harvard College and Harvard men who took the lead in the development of the modern graduate school. Mr. Long's essays on Ticknor, Everett, Cogswell, Longfellow, Bancroft, and Motley are this not only chapters in the history of faste and scholarship in this country but are also chapters, and important ones, in Harvard history...
These men were the pioneers who opened the trail from American college to German universities and returned to preach the gospel of German philosophy, philology, and science. All but one had gone out from Harvard; all but one returned to Harvard to expound the new vision of scholarship. It is a colorful series of pictures that Mr. Long draws from the letters and journals of these cager young men, all of whom gravitated to Goettingen to hear the giants of learning. Edward Everett, who was a Harvard A.B. at seventeen, preacher to "the politest congregation in Boston" at twenty...