Word: question
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Schenck's communication on the question of scholarships is the second step in an old controversy which might better have been left unopened, for the question of the respective records in scholarship of public and private school men is one that can never be settled satisfactorily till a far more minute investigation of the subject is carried out. Yesterday morning the CRIMSON merely stated that the bare figures, by giving fewer scholarships to private school men than to public school men, were unfavorable to the former; there was no conscious assumption as to what the achievements of either group should...
...first trials for the Pasteur Medal will be held in Sever 11 this evening at 7.30 o'clock. Candidates should prepare five-minute speeches on either side of the question, "Resolved, that the President of the French Republic should have a veto power similar to that of the President of the United States." Nine men will probably be retained at these preliminary trials. Ten-minute speeches on the same subject should be prepared by these men for the finals, which will be held on January 16, 1914. The judges this evening will be L. J. A. Mercier of the French...
Immediately after the Christmas recess work will be begun on the housing of the class of 1915 in the Senior dormitories for next year. A committee will then be appointed and a Junior smoker will be held early in January, at which the Senior dormitory question will be discussed. Juniors should begin now to organize and make up their groups as the time for forming them is limited...
...first trials for the Pasteur Medal will be held in Sever 11 tomorrow evening at 7.30 o'clock. Candidates should prepare five-minute speeches on either side of the question, "Resolved that the President of the French Republic should have a vote power similar to that of the President of the United States." Nine men will probably be retained at these preliminary trials who should prepare ten-minute speeches on the same question for the finals which will be held on January 16, 1914. The judges will be L. J. A. Mercier of the French Department, E. O. Tabor...
...exceptions, when the chances are several hundred to one that their records after colleges will be like their records in college, flat, undistinguished C's. While Phi Beta Kappa keys and cum laude degrees and honorary scholarships are no sure pass-ports to prosperity, they are, without question fairly accurate promises of future success. Scores of cases could be adduced to prove it in the history of Harvard graduates alone. Bearing this in mind, the mediocre man should strive to better his status while yet there is time by acquiring habits of regular and concentrated study without which success...