Word: career
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...highest Seniors, exclusive of those already members; from these names eight Juniors, the so called "Junior Eight," and 22 Seniors are chosen. Later in the year five more Seniors may be elected; these men are those whose records for the first part of their College career have been marred by sickness or other causes not affecting their good character, but who have done such excellent work that their fitness for membership cannot be questioned. At the close of the year the society may choose five additional men who have been successful in the award of prizes and academic distinctions...
...University has received a gift of $5,000 "to establish a scholarship of $250 a year to be given to that indigent senior student in college who, specializing in Chemistry and intending to follow a Chemical career, is judged by the Chemical faculty to be worthy of it through conscientious effort and reasonably high standing." The scholarship is to be known as "The Stanley Bagg Pennock Scholarship" and is given in memory of S. B. Pennock '15 by his father, John D. Pennock...
...library steps, following an announcement that a protest would be made against the Trustees in expelling Professors Dana and Cattell and causing Professor Beard's resignation. The meeting was addressed by former instructor Durant of the Philosophy Department who said in pant: "Professor Beard has offered his life and career as a sacrifice to the freedom of speech." Several students also spoke, one saying the meeting was not in the best interests of Columbia. A Freshman struck the true spirit of the occasion when he said that the students had met to protest against the action of the Trustees...
...natural for a young man, upon coming to Harvard from a strange land, to feel that he is an outsider, with few social interests in common with the native students. Unless such an attitude is checked at the start the foreigner will drift along through his college career without ever realizing an important phase of Harvard...
...Second, urge and advise all preparatory school men intending to enter Yale or any other college in the fall, not to be deterred from continuing their educational career...