Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...awarding the scholarships, the committee will take into consideration the scholarly attainments of the applicants as shown by their school records, and also their character, qualities of leadership, and well-rounded development. These scholarships will be again available for the academic year 1912-13, and all young men intending to be candidates should make application on blanks provided for the purpose not later than May 1, 1912. The blank form of application, and any other information in regard to the scholarships, may be obtained either from the Secretary of the Faculty of Art and Sciences, 20 University Hall, Cambridge...
...Harvard do better service to the country by reducing the price of education, by adopting the German system of compensating professors, by favoring the leadership of the intellectual student, rather than of the athletic or convivial student, or by any other change...
...suggested that the award be made to the essay that offers the best suggestion for the benefit of the University and the undergraduates. The query is, whether some new intellectual leadership, of a supreme nature, might be of service to the undergraduates? All the branches of the subject are with reference to such service. Writers for the prizes are invited to consider whether the present cost of education might well be lowered, whether inexpensive education would widen the usefulness of Harvard, and whether the introduction of a larger number of intellectual students, of the old fashioned kind, would help...
While the Faculty of the present day are the most perfect instructors, it is supposed that some leadership, of a supreme order, might be of service to Harvard, and through Harvard to the country. Older graduates remember, gratefully, the good they gained from James Russell Lowell, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Asa Gray, Louis Agassiz, and other leaders of men, who were lecturers, and the regret they felt that Harvard did not employ John Fiske, J. H. Choate, J. C. Carter, George Bancroft, Francis Parkman, J. L. Motley, Ralph Waldo Emerson, W. H. Prescott, and others like them, as regular lecturers...
...addition to the numerous side shows, the important events are, the obstacle race, sack race, tug-of-war, potato race, pie-eating contest, and greased pig race. Cups will be awarded to the winners of each event. An imperial German band, under the leadership of Herr Getzenschneider, has been engaged for the evening. It is up to every member of the class to turn out and make the affair a complete success...