Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...annual meeting for the award of academic distinctions, held last night in Sanders Theatre, was very successful, chiefly by reason of Owen Wister's notable speech on "Our Country and the Scholar." Deturs were awarded to about thirty men in the first group who had never before received this form of academic recognition, and the names of the principal prize winners and scholars of the past year were read. The music, by the Doctors' Chorus, was exceptionally fine. They gave the "Winter Song" and the "Comrade Song," both by Bullard, and led in the singing of "Fair Harvard...
Dean Hurlbut, in a brief address, stated the aim of the meeting, and introduced Owen Wister '82 as one who in Undergraduate days was himself a scholar, who won his degree "summa cum laude," with honors in English, philosophy, and music; but dearer by reason of his books, for which all owe a debt of gratitude...
...America, but at the head of what? At the head of a country where the balance of trade in brains is minus 100 per cent! Harvard students and graduates must stand behind these great leaders of the University, for they can do nothing without the help of the scholar and the financier. The scholar must have the recognition, the encouragement, the help that he has in Germany, France and England. He must have liberty from starvation, either physical or mental. The recognition of other scholars must be given to encourage him. There are signs that the scholar is coming...
...Sanders Theatre this evening at 8 o'clock. Dean Hurlbut will preside and will make a brief statement of the purposes of the meeting. The principal address will be delivered by Owen Wister '82, author of "The Virginian" and other well-Known books, on "Our Country and the Scholar...
...clock next Wednesday evening. Dean Hurlbut will be the presiding officer and will make a brief statement of the purposes of the meeting. The principal address will be delivered by Owen Wister '82, author of "The Virginian" and other well-known books, on "Our Country and the Scholar...