Word: scholasticism
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According to Rhodes' will "My desire being that the students who shall be elected to the scholarships shall not merely bookworms, I direct that in the election of a student regard shall be had to (1) his literary and scholastic attainments, (2) his fondness for and success in manly outdoor...
5. Men on probation for scholastic reasons may take part in the final games between the Harvard Houses and the Yale Colleges, and may enter informal contests with preparatory schools.
Prospectus for Dr. Sharp's School for Maturates contains no customary scholastic rules. But no student may be under 70. Classes will be held from 1130 p. m. to 4. There will be no entrance examinations, tuition, compulsory attendance, class or racial distinctions. Classrooms are on the ground-floor...
Never yet has there been a Negro officer of the U. S. Navy and many a naval officer says privately there never will be. Oscar De Priest, three-term Republican Congressman (1929-35) from Chicago's colored district, appointed three Negroes to the Naval Academy. None got in. One...
Earle Elmer Meadows, 24, and William Healy Sefton, 22, pole-vaulted separately before they entered U.S.C. in 1933. Beginning at 10, Earle practiced with an old rug cane and clothesline strung up in his Little Rock front yard. Anxious to spur his son's aerial career, Father Meadows, a...