Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enter teaching than any other single profession, liberal arts and teachers' colleges today are deadly competitors. Teachers' colleges are busy awarding points in many professional courses but fail to give their students a broad education. The liberal arts colleges turn out many graduates more interested in scholarship than in the children they are to teach...
Opportunity for Harvard to make clear its position in the Sino-Japanese War and take a real step in furthering international scholarship was outlined by John K. Fairbank '29, instructor in History, as he discussed the drive for books and funds to support China's fleeing universities starting this week...
...most courageous and spectacular fortitude, Fairbank continued, have the universities been able to keep from disintegrating. Their books and buildings have been taken from them, and now in Kunming their preservation depends on aid from foreign nations. "It is our chance now to take up the cause of international scholarship and stand against the wanton imperialism of an aggressor nation...
...these dark days into which the world has lurched, the cause of true scholarship has been obscured more than many other fundamental rights of free regimes. In totalitarian states, the searchers after truth have been hounded from existence by States which prefer to create false sciences rather than adapt their beliefs to legitimate knowledge. But in China the scholars have more literally faced booming guns and gleaming bayonets. For the impetuous Japanese onrush has destroyed universities as well as arsenals and the comparatively small band of Chinese students has had to retreat to the hinterlands and there start work anew...
...Harvard scholarship plan he found an "effective way" to promote what he committee was organized to encourage-peace and solidarity among the American republics...