Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More forehanded, however, than most Southern States, which make no provision for Negroes' professional education, Missouri had provided scholarships in northern law schools for Negroes. Missouri officials offered Gaines such a scholarship. Gaines refused it, insisted on his right to be taught law in Missouri, like white folks. Last week, in a historic decision, the U. S. Supreme Court held that Lloyd Gaines was within his rights...
...service to a university for a teacher to make himself irreplacable. And if Professor Lowes has done this, it is only for the moment. In the next ten years the English Department will know a new burst of activity, a new striving for scholarship, a new set of names to become famous. And in this Professor Lowes will see a tangible reward for his labor and the most moving tribute a teacher can receive...
...coat-tails, and for the last fifteen I have been sitting at his feet. It is difficult to speak directly of the loss involved in his retirement, but it may be said that he has quickened generations of students and in his writings he has bridged the gap between scholarship and criticism. He has made criticism learned and scholarship exciting. If any literary scholar of our time has raised a monument more lasting than bronze--and 'a stately pleasure-dome'--Professor Lowes has done...
...gift of criticism. He has touched nothing he has not adorned. His "Convention and Revelt in Poetry" is a milestone in criticism. His work as an interpreter of Chaucer is unique. In "The Road to Xanadu" he has shown how psychological insight, uniting with exact and discriminating scholarship, can illumine the creative imagination of poets...
Harvard's reserve strength is notably weak and inexperienced, a fact which was apparent during the Brown tussle. Coach Fesler's squad misses forward Dick Sullivan, who is out in Ohio competing for a Rhodes scholarship. As a result, Jayvee Lee Bird was elevated to the Varsity a few days ago to bolster the reserves...