Word: deturs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Freshman gets several A's. Finally, in the autumn of his Sophomore year, his name appears in the CRIMSON, and he receives a notice that he has won a John Harvard Scholarship. He may hear in a vague way that there is such a thing as a Detur,--a most mysterious object,--attached to a John Harvard Scholarship. No official communication about it reaches him, but at length he learns that it is a book, and that it must be applied for. Upon application, it develops that it is not given out until after the Commencement of his Sophomore year...
While in College Cutting was distinguished in scholarship, receiving three John Harvard Scholarships and a detur. He also took an active part in minor athletics. Later he entered the diplomatic service, but was compelled to resign on account of ill health. At the time of his death he was engaged in collecting material for a course of lectures to be given at Harvard...
William Chase Greene '11, of Baltimore, Md., has been chosen as Rhodes Scholar from Massachusetts by the committee of selection, of which President Lowell is chairman. Greene has been awarded two John Harvard scholarships, one Harvard College scholarship, and a detur. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa, and is one of its three representatives on the Student Council...
...Irving Bennett '11, of Gloucester, has been awarded the Richard Augustine Gambrill Scholarship, amounting to $525, for having the highest scholastic standing in the Senior class. Bennett has been a first group scholar during his entire College course. At the end of his Freshman year he was awarded a Detur, and a Matthews Scholarship, of $300. Last year he received the Saltonstall Scholarship, amounting to $525, for having the highest rank in the Junior class. E. E. Hunt '10, of Mechanicsburg, Ohio, now of the English Department, won the Gambrill Scholarship last year...
William Bayard Cutting, Jr., '00 died on March 10 at Assouan, Egypt of pneumonia. While in College he was distinguished in scholarship receiving a detur, in his Sophomore year, and three John Harvard Scholarships; he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He played on his class baseball team for three years, and was captain of the University golf team...