Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...progress after he left the Academy should give hope to West Point's dullards. He saw active service in Cuba, in the Boxer Rebellion, in the Philippine Pacification. Son of a cavalryman, with a boyhood spent on the Western Plains, he made up for a lack of scholarship with plenty of resource, winning thanks from the entire Chinese population of San Francisco for stowing away and keeping straight a squalling horde of Chinese babies after the 1906 earthquake. During the War he was a corps chief-of-staff in France, later commanded all U. S. troops in Germany. Back...
...earnest but fastidious champion of academic freedom is James Bryant Conant. As president of Harvard he may turn down a Nazi's scholarship (TIME, Oct. 15, 1934) or protest a law requiring teachers to swear allegiance to Federal and State Constitutions (TIME, April 15). He may not involve the University in politics. Last week, therefore, Dr. Conant hurried home from a southern trip to quiet an equally earnest but less fastidious professor...
...Advocate's editorial aim. The Advocate seeks to chart, by publication of undergraduate and any such other material as is appropriate, where the force of college opinion and interest lies in any field, and the further result of its pressure. There are no limits: the subject may be athletics, scholarship, or poetry...
Biographies by Harold Nicolson (Paul Verlaine; Swinburne; Curzon) have been characterized by careful scholarship, an almost ostentatious avoidance of partisan feeling, a mood of suppressed irony. These qualities are all revealed in his biography of Dwight Whitney Morrow, lawyer, Morgan partner, Ambassador to Mexico, Senator from New Jersey, whose life receives at Harold Nicolson's hands an intelligent and exhaustive review such as few U. S. capitalists have enjoyed. Beginning with an apology for the inability of an English author to comprehend all the factors of a U. S. background, Harold Nicolson presents Morrow as a "completely civilized...
...Plimpton will hold three posts in addition to the deanship, a member of the Administrative Board, of the Scholarship Committee, and of the Faculty ex-office...