Word: man
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Princeton, will begin this afternoon and continue tomorrow and Saturday at the West Side Republican Club, Broadway and 83d street, New York. Harvard has won the championship for the past two years and has apparently every chance for a third successive victory. W. C. Cogswell '07 is the only man on the University team who did not play in the intercollegiate match last year...
...students in Harvard College was held last night in Sanders Theatre. After a choral by the Appleton Chapel choir, Dean Hurlbut, who presided, briefly out-lined the purpose of the meeting. It is a fallacy, he said, that the first scholar in college is not the first man in the world, and it is the gentleman who will address you this evening who has helped to prove this statement, Frederick Perry Fish of the class...
...Fish stated the fact that has so often been emphasized that, after all, the true measure of a university is its standard of scholarship, which fits men for the work of the world. None deserves the favors of his college so much as the man who by all tests has proved himself the most worthy scholar. That a business man has been asked to speak to you this evening shows the importance of the scholar in the world of commerce today...
...what has this, he said, to do with scholarships? It simply illustrates the excellent opportunities that present themselves to the scholar today in the world of commerce. There never was a time in history so good as the present for the work of the well-trained man, the man who has the ability to seize things as they are, to grasp a complicated situation, and act accordingly. The only man who can do this is the true scholar...
...scholar does not see fit to become a business man, he can help the business world by seeing it in the proper light, and by helping the public to a better grasp of the situation, through clean criticism...