Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Here at Harvard a scholarship has become a prize to be obtained usually by a man who does not need it badly. A student who comes here and has his way paid by thrifty parents to the extent that he need not work at all outside of school is able to make the Dean's List and live in the highest of bourgeois comfort. But what of the man who must earn his way without the aid from home? He carries one or sometimes two jobs on the side, rushes from his work to his books, and from his books...
...fear that the undergraduates will put something over on it. The student of English, however good his record, goes through College continually under suspicion. The professors are terrified by the fear that undergraduates will concentrate in literature because it is a snap. They throw overboard all principles of sane scholarship and intelligent teaching in order to make their courses hard. Fearing intelligence, because it sometimes passes examinations without working, they place emphasis on unimportant facts. The general examination of 1929 shows the disastrous effects of such a theory. There is no question longer than twenty minutes, and all these little...
...Such fund," the will adds, "to be known as the James Edward Ditson Endowment, and any chair, or scholarship or fellowship, which is established to bear his name; but nothing herein shall prevent said president and fellows of Harvard College from investing the money as part of their general fund and applying a proportionate part of the income of their general fund to the purposes of this bequest...
...spite of its drawbacks the Reading Period has probably been of benefit to student scholarship in many respects. Nevertheless there is no justification for construing all statistics into a blanket endorsement. The report has no weight in estimating the value of the Reading Period, since it says no more than that when classes are few excuses are few. Such obvious attempts at whitewash can hardly do more than prejudice an innovation which deserves careful study during a period of experimentation...
...educational donations by $200,000, establishing, through the Association of American Rhodes Scholars, a George Eastman Visiting Professorship at Oxford University. Said Mr. Eastman: "I am desirous of doing something that will assist Englishmen and Colonials and particularly the group destined to play an important part in government, science, scholarship, journalism and industry to understand America. ... I do not forget that an Oxford experience will be immensely stimulating to the American appointee. . . ." The Rhodes professors will visit from one to five years, will be attached to Balliol College, which is scholastically prominent and famed as the intellectual crib...