Word: giving
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...matter of course by at least one man who evidently believes in the usefulness of the Council and its ability to cope with all questions of undergraduate importance. This is by no means the first time that suggestions have been made with a view to having the student body give some concrete appreciation to high scholarship each year, but little has ever been accomplished in that direction. It is too often the fate of the scholar to be appreciated by very few men other than a limited group of teachers with a few intimate friends; furthermore, there...
...undergraduate body is to show this general public recognition for the man who has won laurels in scholarly pursuits has never been successfully worked out. The Phi Beta Kappa elections in honoring the twenty or more highest scholars in the class give to the men an excellent reward for their efforts but it does not come from the students as a whole. The broadening of the scope of the requirements of election recently has been of distinct advantage in securing a group of men representing the best and sanest types of intellectual students, but it is not given them...
...Weather conditions represents a full 10 lengths. The decisive nature of this victory is to be accounted for by saying that the University crew proved better and the Cornell crew worse than expectations. Although the crews' chances were estimated as equal, and the high wind was even considered to give the advantage to the superior watermanship of Cornell, the University boat took the lead at the very start and crossed the finishing line without ever being pressed...
...seems desirable to call the attention of students, particularly of Freshmen, to the fact that the most satisfactory results of College study are often secured by men who plan their work with a view to candidacy for a degree with distinction. (See Catalogue, pp. 508-518). For this gives them a chance to fulfill the popular definition of a liberal education as one which results in knowing a little of everything and all about something. The best way of deciding what kind of distinction to try for has been found to be as follows: Glance through the elective pamphlet, checking...
Great responsibilities rest upon the Council, and indirectly upon the nominating committee and the class, which must choose the men that will give the body proper authority at the start. But we know that 1909 has the men who can fulfill the hopes of the most optimistic promoters, and that the under classes will not be behindhand in their support. Here's success to the Council, scholar ship and athletics...