Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...High scholarship and balance of all interest are the outstanding characterization of Lowell House...
...Senator Clark for nearly 20 years and lived with him a year at Notre Dame. I still regard him as having the best mind, memory and fund of general knowledge of anyone I've ever known. He turned down a chance to take the exams for a Rhodes Scholarship in order to go to Harvard Law School. He was a much better scholar than...
...violinist in three symphonies, for ten years head of the department of theory and composition of the New York Philharmonic Scholarship School and for the past year the editor in charge of TIME'S music department (but not of this review), Winthrop Sargeant is not concerned in his Jazz: Hot and Hybrid* with the question of whether Benny Goodman is a better hot clarinetist than Joe Marsala or who played the piano on Fletcher Henderson's record of Wang Wang Blues. Instead, he rolls up his sleeves and squares off with a lucid chapter on "Improvisation, Notation...
...fact is that S. F. Porter is a pretty, vivacious, prodigious young lady who was just 22 when she tweaked Secretary Morgenthau's dignity nearly four years ago. Sensitive about her age ever since Cornell refused her a scholarship because she was only 16. Sylvia Field Porter graduated from Hunter College and talked her way into a job with an investment counsel firm in the desolate year of 1932. In 1935 she went to work as a financial writer for the New Dealish New York evening Post and when the struggling Post last year had to cut expenses...
There are types of scholarship which suffer no harm from being confined in an very tower which is furnished only with books or laboratory apparatus; there are others which are enriched by broad human sympathies and experience. Although a university lives within walls as a world apart, there must be perpetual commerce with the world outside in order that the university may both enlighten and be nourished by the civilization of its time and place...