Word: personally
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Sophomore year at some recognized degree-granting university or college of the United States (An exception to this rule is made in the case of the State of Massachusetts, where at the request of the Committee of Selection, authority is given at appoint from the Secondary Schools.) Any person who may have been selected once will be eligible to a Rhodes Scholarship at any subsequent time, provided that he satisfy the other conditions of eligibility...
...making the college course what it is often quite mistakenly said to be, a preparation for life. It ought to enable the University to affirm, with greater confidence than has hitherto been possible, that its graduate known his general subject, and is also, in respect of it, an educated person. It ought to improve the quality and widen the range of instruction, if the point of view of the professor and that of the student are not to be hopelessly divergent. It ought to help redeem the summer vacation, now so striking an anomaly in an age of conservation...
...usual manner of such appointments at the University, following the nomination and recommendation of the Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge, England, Failing a candidate from Cambridge, the Vice-Chancellor may select a candidate from any other university in the United Kingdom. A provision is made that the same person may hold the Fellowship for three consecutive years upon three consecutive nominations...
...newspaper lying, for their censorship's, established avowedly for the purpose of preventing military facts of value from falling into the hands of the enemy, speedily degenerated into deliberate suppression or deliberate propaganda. The worst offenders in this respect have been the English, but our own government in the person of the intolerant, arrogant, and incompetent Mr. Burleson has made a record that Americans would be heartily ashamed of if they knew...
...really know very little beyond the fact that there is some sort of an argument about the Saar Vallely and that Italy is not satisfied. A great number of Harvard men have never read the Covenant for the League of Nations and some never will. Although an absolutely ignorant person will be able to gain important knowledge from Mr. Taft's lecture, the benefit and enjoyment we derive from it will be proportioned to our knowledge. It will be to Harvard's credit if every undergraduate and member of the graduate schools will attend the lecture, with at least...