Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...where an entire department, not to say a faculty, of a professedly liberal institution, exhibits a homogeneity of sentiment grossly unrepresentative of the division of opinion in the community of scholarship or the community at large, a legitimate suspicion of bias is afforded. Within the social sciences in particular, the representation of those dissident opinions reflecting vital intellectual and political currents is the surest guarantee that instructors are being freely and impartially chosen. At Harvard in the past there has been a consistent over-representation of the conservative point of view, and we recommend that this be corrected...
Another big step in Haydn scholarship was taken in Manhattan last week when the New Friends of Music (no kin to the Vienna Friends) played the first of five editions by Musicologist Alfred Einstein (distant kin to Physicist Albert Einstein) of "new" symphonies probably never played since Papa Haydn conducted them for the Esterhazys a century and a half ago: Nos. 67, 71, 77, 80, 87. Having examined all the great Haydn collections, except the Esterhazys', Dr. Einstein had made diligent revisions, here deleting a spurious passage put in by an overenthusiastic conductor, there restoring an eccentric "lost" bagpipe...
Under the joint direction of Nadia Boulanger and G. Wallace Woodworth, the concert will help to establish a fund for the presentation of a scholarship to some promising young composer, Nadia Boulanger is the sister of the composer whose career was cut short by her untimely death in 1918, and in whose memory the scholarship is to be given...
...year for Phi Beta Kappa. He prepared for college at Boston Latin where he was an outstanding student. This award is only one of four that he has received while at Harvard. His laurels include the Ames Memorial award, a Coolidge Prize Medal, the Detur Prize, and the Crowinshield Scholarship...
...committee's report, a surprising number of Law School men are unwilling to help organize a similar cooperative. Probably there are several explanations, principally that the Andover scheme had not proved successful when the report was distributed, and secondarily because of what Life magazine so colorfully termed their "fierce" scholarship. Also, there was doubtless some feeling that if nothing were done from below, a wind-fall would suddenly descend from above, and "authorities" would place a dining hall in their laps...