Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...form, the general trend of the work of this session, Resolved: That the principles and psychology of salesmanship should be applied to Bible Study Groups; that the leader should be selected for his knowledge and sympathy with the problems of student life rather than for his ability as a scholar; that Bible Study purposes and methods should be vital and social in application rather than historical or critical; that the interest of the faculty in Bible Study work should be recognized; that the faith and ability of the leader should be recognized...
...Groton, Middlesex, Milton, Pomfret, St. George's, St. Mark's, and St. Paul's, the average is only one in thirty-five this year. Among the graduates of three high schools taken as typical--Boston Latin, Cambridge Latin, and English High--one out of every five qualifies as a scholar...
...been president of Wisconsin, from which he graduated in 1880, since 1903. He has received the degree of LL.D. from the University of Chicago, Yale, Harvard, Williams, and Dartmouth. A number of the best books on geology and natural resources have brought him a wide reputation as a scholar and an author...
...Professor Taussig has performed for this generation a service comparable to that performed by J. S. Mill for an earlier one, is an achievement of which all Harvard men may well be proud. As a teacher Professor Taussig has aroused enthusiastic interest in economics among undergraduates, and as a scholar by his pioneer work has commanded the admiration of those who, like himself, have devoted their lives to the study of economic problems. The qualifications that make a god teacher and the talents that make a good scholar are quite distinct. It is the possession of both in such...
...used in any other universities (!) for the commencers to have plum-cake, is dishonorable to the College, not grateful to wise men, and chargeable to the parents of the Commencers, [the Corporation] do therefore put an end to that custom, and do hereby order that no Commencers, or other scholar, shall have any such cakes in their studies or chambers; and that if any scholar shall offend therein, the cakes shall be taken from him, and he shall moreover pay to the College twenty shillings for each such offense...