Word: scholar
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Today, according to custom, the Senior Class will don the Cap and Gown, which, for centuries has been the mark and badge of the scholar. Time, which has made such inroads on our traditions, has in so far pravailed that the period during which gowns are worn is now but a scant seven weeks of four long years of undergraduate existence. From the first of May until he receives his diploma, custom demands that the Senior stand forth in his primary capacity as a seeker after knowledge...
...Gifford '13, an instructor in French in the University, attended Bailiol College of Oxford University from 1913 until 1916 as a Rhodes Scholar...
...stipend of a Rhodes scholarship is normally 300 pounds a year, but until further notice scholars will receive a bonus of 50 pounds per annum. A scholarship is tenable for three years, subject to the continued approval of the College at Oxford of which the scholar is a member. To be eligible for a Rhodes Scholarship in 1922-23 a man must be "a citizen of the United States, with at least five years' domicile, and unmarried; he must have been born between October 1, 1897, and October 1, 1903; and by October 1, 1922, he must have completed...
...contemporary pamphlets of Luther and his opponents, pamphlets which exist in considerable numbers and are of great interest in relation to early events of the Reformation. Besides the books from the Library's own shelves, the exhibit includes books from the library of Dr. Preserved Smith, a distinguished Luther scholar, and from other private collections including the Morgan Library in New York...
Coming up from behind in the last mile, Cambridge won the annual crew race with Oxford yesterday on the Thames, F. B. Lothrop '21, who was No 2 on the University eight last year, and is now a Rhodes scholar at Oxford rowed No. 4 in the boat of that college yesterday. Her crew was ahead at the dale of the third mile, but losing the last soon afterwards, finished a length behind Cambridge...