Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Modern educators, including President Conant, are currently vying with each other in their loud huzzahs for extra-curricular activities as a vital part of an education. Official Harvard recognizes them in its scholarship awards and in various other honors. The undergraduate body recognizes them by common respect for participants. In choosing his activity, each student must be guided by his own interest and capabilities. But the Crimson likes to feel that it shelters under its skirts such a variety of activities that it can satisfy the bent of almost everyone...
...refugee students have been awarded scholarships for study at Harvard beginning this semester, and other refugees will be chosen later as scholarship holders for the academic year beginning next September, the University announced today...
...Student Refugees, headed by Robert E. Lane '39, has received $11,000 from Harvard students and faculty members, and $2,300 from Harvard alumni, to pay for the living expenses of the refugee students while they attend the University. Last November the Harvard Corporation voted to establish twenty new scholarships of $500 each ($100 more than tuition fee) for qualified refugee students of any creed from Germany, provided that each scholarship be supplemented by contributions for living expenses to an amount equivalent to $500 raised by the Harvard undergraduate committee. The award of these scholarships is administered by the Committee...
...goes beyond these and raises the question of the department's general attitude toward the teaching of this subject. To this question no complete and dogmatic answer can be given which would invalidate its entire function. The department is highly esteemed in this country and abroad for its sound scholarship and within the University it adequately provides instruction in that cultural curiosity, but, perhaps, necessity-"appreciation...
...Business School the Buckley scholarship went to John F. Tynan, of Cambridge, Mass...