Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...society wishes it understood that the office of first marshal is conferred on the man, who, in the opinion of the society, best deserves the title of first scholar of the Senior class...
...this bridge, built in memory of a scholar and a soldier, connecting the College Yard and playing fields of Harvard, be an ever-present reminder to students passing over it of loyalty to country and Alma Mater and a lasting suggestion that they should devote their manhood, developed by study and play on the banks of this river, to the nation and its needs...
...continual cry on the part of college authorities that the athlete is exalted at the expense of the scholar, that more attention is paid to the college letter than to the Phi Beta Kappa key. It would then seem reasonable that the "Office" should endeavor to provide every incentive towards higher grades. But this hardly appears to be done...
...this period the degrees were called "first" and "second" degrees, that is A.B. and A.M. In 1602 the requirement for first degree was: "Every Scholar that on proofe is found able to read ye originall of ye old & New testament into ye Latin tongue, and to Resolve them logically, withall beeing of honest life & conversation and at any publike act hath ye approbation of ye overseers, & Master of ye Colledge may bee invested with his first degree." Upon taking his first degree, a student was called, following the practice of the English universities, "Dominus" or "Sir," a title used...
...third year as a Resident Bachelor, a student could return for his second degree, for which he must have these qualifications: "Every Scholar that giveth up in writing a Synopsis or summa of Logicke, Naturall & Morall Philosophy, Arithmeticke, Geometry; & Astronomy, & is ready to defend his these or positions, withall skilled in ye originals as aforesaid & still continues honest and studious, at any publike act after trial hee shall bee capable of ye 2'd. degree of Master of Arts." Moreover, he had to have receipts for all his College bills, and especially a "Certificate from the Steward"; nor could...