Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those who desire to learn more specifically the grounds of this resentment, there is opportunity tonight to hour at Ford Hall men whose scholarship and experience fit them to speak with authority on the subject. The meeting will be one of the first attempts in this vicinity to make a reasonable and intelligent protest against what is now considered the abuse of censorship. Hitherto when a popular play or book has been banned, the only effect has unfortunately been a good deal of mud-slinging by those on either side of the question, without any effort to fight on common...
...Charles Joseph Bonaparte Scholarship, one of the most sought after awards among the 500 which the College annually makes to undergraduates, has been given for the year of 1929-30 to Frederick Mundell Watkins '30 of Providence, Rhode Island. The award last year was won by Thomas Arnold McGovern '29 of Schenectady, New York, who also was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship-at-large during his Senior year...
...Charles Joseph Bonaparte Scholarship is given annually by Mrs. Ellen C. Bonaparte. The preference in choosing the student to whom the award is to be made is given to students who have demonstrated an interest in the study of American government, and who give promise of helping in after life to promote higher standards in government and citizenship. The scholarship is awarded at the end of the Junior year to that member of the class concentrating in the department of Government who without regard to financial need, has the highest academic standing in that subject...
...average freshman across the campus no longer bears any relation to that of the snail. Education has been made as painless as possible. If, in easing entrance requirements so as to admit the vast numbers who are now candidates for degrees in America, the college authorities have sacrificed scholarship, they have added to the adolescent's joy in life. Addressing the students of Columbia at the formal opening of its one hundred and seventy-sixth year, Dr. Butler reminded them of the gruelling entrance tests of fifty years ago. He was frank enough to say that not only could...
...history were first made in Washington, D. C., where she grew up and went to public school. Her father was killed in an accident four months before she was born. Although her present familiarity with the great figures of the past suggests, perhaps correctly, long silent hours devoted to scholarship, friends recall that her penchant for playing hooky worried her mother a lot until Ina convinced her that, as she had already determined to become an actress, she did not need an education. What she needed, she insisted, was emotion. She made what use she could of this quality...