Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the Nation was digesting this, German pedagogs confided to foreign correspondents, under promise not to be quoted by name, their grave doubts as to the future of that pedantic, elephantine form of learning which has always proudly called itself German Scholarship with a capital S. The only way to produce such Scholars, the savants moaned last week, is to keep German schoolchildren grinding at their lessons six days out of every week and to hound them so vigorously that suicides just before examination time have long been a German academic commonplace...
...devote at least one half of his time in the coming year to the study of some problem or problems relating to the relation of government to industry under the supervision of the Department of Economics. It is distinctly a prize that may be held in addition to a scholarship or fellowship. The date of the competition will be announced shortly...
...more accomplished and pro fessional of the two books, The Stars Look Down revolves around the career of David Fenwick, whose father and brother died in a flood in Richard Barras' mine. Serious, stubborn, long-faced, intelligent, David won a scholarship, was the first of his family to escape Sleescale, where deep and ancient mines reached out under the sea. His father, who knew that the cutting was dangerous, had led an unsuccessful strike in an effort to compel the adoption of precautionary measures. The most remarkable incident in The Stars Look Down, and a powerful piece of writing...
Warning that failure to make a Student Council pledge may deprive a classmate of a necessary scholarship, Thomas II. Quinn "36, president of the Council, last night urged every man to give what he could this year. After pointing to the decline in Council funds, he said, "Unless we receive more money than last year, it will be necessary for us to make drastic economies in our budget...
...chapter on his days in German universities Bliss Perry accents the tremendously high requirement of scholarship of that day and the picturesque life of the German student. Germany was then the place to go to study English, although the work was largely philological and abstruse. He draws fascinating portraits of some of his instructors and colleagues there. Consistently an upholder of the liberal, appreciative approach to literature at Harvard Perry confesses that the discipline of sheer grinding on etymological facts and tables was a tonic...