Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...thousand dollar scholarship has been left to Dartmouth college. upon condition that no student using liquors or tobacco shall receive the benefit...
Joseph H. Chate of New York has founded a scholarship in memory of his son, the late Ruluff Sterling Choate, a member of '87. The value of the scholarships is three hundred dollars, and for the first three years the holder is to be a member of '87, and the founder is to be consulted in regard to the selection...
...required to reach an average of 50 per cent. on the whole course in order to make sure of a degree, and the new rule will only result in producing a more even distribution of his work. The entire change tends toward raising the standard of scholarship at the college, and ought to be received with satisfaction by those who have its welfare at heart. From the 33 1-3 per cent. of a few years ago, to the 50 per cent. of to day, is a stride which the "grinds" will hardly notice, but which may serve to induce...
...permanent basis. With a fixed director, qualified by prolonged residence on Hellenic soil, and no energy wasted in seeking to maintain its income, our school will compete in friendly emulation with the older institutes at Athens of France and Germany, not only to raise the standard of American scholarship, but to promote the world's understanding of the problems of that ancient life which soared with the swift and unerring flight of the eagle from the infancy of barbarism to the highest intellectual plane which has been attained...
...made to Mr. Norman's book, and also to our own Professor, J. W. White, whose work on "Rythmic and Metric" is the basis of Mr. Jebb's metrical criticisms. In the appendix are notes on the Harvard performance of the play of which Mr. Jebb says "The thorough scholarship, the archeological knowledge and the artistic skill which presided over that performance invest the record of it with a permanent value for every student of the play." The thorough scholarship and the peculiar interest of this volume to Harvard men should make it a popular one here. The need...