Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...statement made by the CRIMSON some time ago that a $4,000 scholarship had been given to Dartmouth on condition that no student who uses tobacco shall receive any of its benefits, is but an example of one of the many scholar ships at that college. It seems that every student who applies for a scholar ship at Dartmouth must sign a pledge not to use tobacco in any form while receiving aid from the college...
...main point to be kept in view in this question is that no man who takes only a "Poll," an ordinary degree at the English Universities is held in much respect as a scholar...
This interest in English composition has had another effect upon the students. The man who works hard over his English, and is supposed to have literary ability, is not deemed a grind, in just the same way that a great classical or mathematical scholar is. He who writes for the college papers gets a popularity, small to be sure, but in kind, somewhat like that of the athlete. It is, in a certain degree, a credit to the class. Accordingly, many who cannot distinguish themselves in athletics, are beginning to look upon a place on an editorial board...
...death of Mr. Hudson, the great Shaksperian scholar, brings before us forcibly the story of his life. From it we may learn what determination can do. A common workman at twenty two, fitting himself for college in nine months, graduating after a long struggle at self-support, becoming almost at once a famous critic and an authority in his favorite study. What a lesson his life teaches. The death of such a man cannot pass without remark and honor. We owe to his memory at least a word of appreciation, for he has left to us in his life...
...said that the historian, Bancroft, is one of the only two Americans now living who ever met Goethe. The other is George H. Calvert, the scholar and poet, who is now eighty-three years...