Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is an appropriate moment in the history of the world to celebrate the idea of a university and to take the occasion to define and to reaffirm most especially the basic relation between teaching and scholarship on the one hand, the power and the policies of government on the other. The Harvard anniversary is a most suitable occasion. For Harvard stands unqualifiedly for the principle that unless they are independent of each other the relation between universities and governments will not be healthy...
Smuts was born (1870) a British subject, because his father's farm happened to be in British territory (Cape of Good Hope), but he was an out-&-out Boer. A solemnly earnest, religious youth, he worked to such good purpose at college in Stellenbosch that he won a scholarship to Cambridge. Back in Capetown after graduation he hung out his shingle as a lawyer. Empire-building Cecil Rhodes had his eye on Smuts, intended to make him one of his young men. And Smuts, believing in Rhodes's dream of a united South Africa, was eager to follow...
...Conant, in the eyes of undergraduates, has placed too much emphasis on scholarship, as such. His approach is too scientific, designed for graduate schools more than for an undergraduate college. His desire to raise scholastic standards should be supported, his research is necessary if the University is to live up to its name as the greatest institution of higher learning in the United States; but the balance has been thrown off between these two and the humbler but more important tasks of teaching and inspiring all students of varying degrees of brilliance...
...barriers, and getting a broader, general view of the world today. The President has planned new "roving professors", unattached to nay Department, to carry out this pruning. This plan is to be applauded and backed as being one which will tend to counteract the emphasis placed on research and scholarship...
...Order of Ahepa Scholarship went to Spiros P. Sarris '32 of Lowell...