Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University of Wisconsin rhetoric pedagog, tells the woeful tale of Jeff Burrus, "the university's best electric signboard," Phi Beta Kappa member, Junior Prom chairman, footballer, crew captain. Pedagog Cason said that Paragon Burrus suffered a nervous breakdown from his wide participation in college affairs. Winning a Rhodes scholarship, he went abroad, suffered another breakdown. "Out of his experience has come the conviction that college athletics used him rather shabbily. . . . His picture tends to show conclusively that a football player has no time or thought to give to anything but football unless he is willing to subject himielf...
...largely the creation of the late Sir Walter Raleigh, who was a professor at Oxford from 1904 to 1919. When the school was started people feared that it would become a school of 'literary lounging', therefore there has been a good deal of the stiffening of the scholarship of English literature of late...
...school has had one or two losses in the last few years, of men of purely literary interests. As a result there are people who feel that there is a danger that the emphasis may fall in the near future upon the scholarship of literature, and upon bibliography. There is a special need at the moment for a man with a wide interest for literature, and Professor Lowes will fit this need admirably...
Professor John Livingston Lowes, who has been chosen to inaugurate the professorship, has been professor of English at Harvard since 1918, and was dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences during 1924-25. He is the author of many notable contributions to English scholarship and criticism, among them being "Convention and Revolt in Poetry" 1919, and "The Road to Zandau", 1927. He will lecture at Oxford in the Honour School of English Language and Literature...
...granting of such scholarships would show the supreme confidence in the theory that true education is self-education. A start in this direction has been made, however, and some such scholarship might well be established for study at Harvard...