Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tercentenary celebration last year, President Conant spoke eloquently for the promulgation of scholarship and the free and unbiased search for truth. In the old yard, under the rain-drenched elms, where the statue of John Harvard contemplates the Cambridge scene, thousands of alumni rose and cheered as the three-hundred-year-old banner of Harvard, bearing the motto, "Veritas", was raised...
...diamond-mining industry one day last week in the company's famed board room in Kimberley, South Africa. Occasion was the 49th annual meeting of the company which, for all practical purposes, is the world's diamond industry. Founded by the young imperialist who established the Rhodes Scholarship Trust, originally chartered with powers not only to engage in commercial exploitation but also to raise armies and make war, annex and govern territory, De Beers through its affiliates now accounts for about 95% of the world's uncut diamonds. Not all these diamonds come from its own mines...
Jack Barnaby, who, because of regular coach Hanny Cowles's illness, has taken over guiding the racketmen, has done a very creditable job. Only Princeton and the nine tennis scholarship holders of Miami boast triumpirs over the Crimson in regular matches...
...Themselves largely influenced by the best of the older German university traditions, many of the American colleges and universities regard the restrictions of the Hitler government as destructive of that scientific spirit and freedom of thought which rightly made German teaching great. They did honor to the older German scholarship by imitating it. Likewise, they have opened their doors to independent and fearless German teachers who have been exiled because of their courage and independence. Naturally, therefore, they are reluctant to do anything which might even indirectly be interpreted as doing honor to the new German spirit--a spirit...
...what is true. When the German universities have once more regained their freedom American representatives will gladly send their delegates and do them honor. Such greetings as may be sent to Goettingen and other German universities will be coolly polite and perfunctory until the great wrong done to German scholarship by the Hitler government has been atoned...