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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dean Donham of the Business School and his associates, acting as a jury to select the best advertisement of the year, will face a difficult task when they endeavor to choose the winners of the Bok Award. Picture the dilemma of the able jurists when forced to decide whether the suggestive appeal of a silk-stockinged maiden is capable of selling more merchandise than the almost absolute purity of floating soap. But it cannot be expected that the choice will be as simple a problem as all that. Too much is at stake...
...Committee on Degrees in History and Literature, of which Professor R. B. Merriman '96 is chairman, announces that the award will be made ordinarily in May, and that within a year the winner is to use the money in the purchase of books of any description except current fiction...
...announcement of the scholarship trophy to be awarded to preparatory schools by Phi Beta Kappa starts a novel train of speculation. It has been customary to regard scholarship as of too individual a nature to make organized competition either possible or interesting. A man studies for his own good. If there is any thought at all of a benefit to be conferred on his school through his personal excellence in scholarship, it is an afterthought. Just because studying is purely personal--one might almost call it a development of one's egoism--it has been necessary in both schools...
...same objection holds good in regard to the schools themselves. Where standards are already high, nothing need be done. It is the school whose standards are low that is the concern of the donors of the award, and it is precisely at this point that the second fundamental obstacle arises. If the morale of a school has fallen to such a point that its directors are no longer disturbed by the necessarily poor showing of its graduates in college examinations, it is hardly probable that they will be aroused to reformatory efforts by the possibility of winning an appropriately designed...
According to the rules for the award of the famous Rhodes stipends, each holder of a scholarship must be a man who has displayed literary and scholarstic ability, qualities of manhood, force of character, and leadership, and physical valor, as shown in interest in outdoor sports or in other ways...