Word: scholasticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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If new men are to be attracted to the University, one must consider with care the position of the new comer. The name of Harvard, many feel, is no longer alone adequate to attract a scholar. More tangible recognition of his worth must be offered to bring even very small...
So far as the University budget is concerned, practically all of the money to be distributed under the plan could just as well be administered as outright aid or in return for a smaller amount of work. The work assigned to the students employed, while sometimes highly useful, is in...
Francis J. Lane '36, who has been filling the spare defense position on the hockey team this winter, will no longer be available, it was announced yesterday by the Harvard Athletic Association. Lane, a football and track letterman was withdrawn from college because of scholastic difficulties.
...history of the world about which more non sense is talked than the middle ages; and since our critics and teachers will not stop talking about mediaeval thought, someone must make them talk intelligently. It may be that Mr. Max Eastman is right when he says that scholasticism can not give a true view of the central problems of the modern world; but Mr. Max Eastman is in any case right for the wrong reason. He calls it a philosophy of wish fulfillment, but that is because he does not know anything about William of Occam, or Thomas Aquinas...
The news that the Scholastic Aptitude Test will shortly be required of all applicants for admission to the College, is the first outward sign that Harvard's entrance requirements are up for revision. This particular test, although still in the experimental stage, has been widely adopted by other colleges. In...