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For 24 years, Abbott Lawrence Lowell guided the destinies of Harvard University. That quarter-century followed the now legendary administration of Charles William Eliot, whose genius and labor transformed this institution from a relatively insignificant college to a leader in American education. President Lowell combined continued progress with the necessary...
When The Citadel in 1922 moved into new $3,500,000 quarters in northwestern Charleston its enrollment began growing from a mere 350 to nearly 2,000. Its scholastic stature has also grown under the presidency of General Charles Pelot Summerall, who retired from the U.S. Army (he was Chief...
Symbolic of exceptional scholastic ability, the John Harvard Scholarships have been awarded this year to twenty-eight upperclassmen, who have made Group I consistently. These scholarships are an honorary award, and are not to be applied for.
Engineer. The U.S. lost more than an ace pilot in Buzz Wagner. Before he joined the Air Corps in 1937 Buzz studied aeronautical engineering three years at the University of Pittsburgh, where he "failed to flash any scholastic lights." But he learned about airplanes and airplane engines as few pursuit...
Stegner's first non-fiction work, part of the American Folkway series, takes Mormonism from all ican Folkway series, takes Mormonism from all points of view and up to the present day. The scholarship is amazingly thorough and the intimate details such as interviews with now-senile bandits and orators...