Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...buttress a point: it is rather as if he had found in that practical, intelligent and independent critic a turn of mind often not dissimilar to his own. Independence is indeed the keynote of Mr. Van Doren's book. In putting behind him the apparatus and techniques of scholarship, he has dared to do what few other critics have done: he has come face to face with Shakespeare. He has recreated the Shakespearean world, and one would like to quote the entire book to show how well a wise, sensitive and exquisite mind has adventured among masterpieces...
Swarthmore's smart President Frank Aydelotte has the special and delicate job of looking after 96 of the best young brains in the U. S.-the Rhodes Scholars. After war was declared last month, Dr. Aydelotte (U. S. secretary for the scholarships) lost no time in calling his precious charges home from Oxford (TIME, Sept. 18). Last week not only Dr. Aydelotte but a solicitous nation demonstrated how much it prized Rhodes scholarship...
Harvard's James Bryant Conant: "Education as usual should be our slogan. If this seems too tame a slogan for these exciting days, let me remind you . . . that this nation now emerges from chaos as the significant home of the arts, of literature, of scholarship, of science. ... I ... make certain assumptions about the next ten years . . . [that] we are not facing the end of civilization . . . that the devastation of the European war will place a unique burden upon the citizens of this nation to carry forward the culture of our time...
Awards in the Law School were as follows: Hale Scholarships to Richard H. Schannen 1L and Edward W. Schall 1L, and the Franklin Reynolds scholarship to Philip E. Parker...
Other Cambridge residents have already received awards for this year are as follows: Bernard Barger '39, won a Sheldon Prize Fellowship of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; Dr. Lewis Dexter, Harvard A.B. '32, M.D. '36, won a William Hunter Workman Scholarship at the Harvard Medical School; Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, was named a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows, on a three-year term; Herbert E. Wright Jr. '39, won the George H. Emerson Scholarship at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...