Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...fulfillment of the terms of the will of the late Edward Austin, the President and Fellows of Harvard College have voted that, until they shall give further orders, $2,000 shall be assigned yearly from the income of his bequest of $500,000 to establish eight scholarship, each with an annual value of $250, to be awarded for one year to superintendents of schools, and to teachers in secondary schools and in colleges, who have been recently in service and intend to return to service. These scholarships are available for the academic year 1899-1900. Applications therefor should be made...
...opening exercises of Radcliffe college were held yesterday morning in Fay House. Miss Irwin welcomed the new students, and briefly mapped out the work for the year. The registration of the Freshman class was very large and promises to exceed all previous figures. The scholarships for 1899-1900 have not yet been awarded. The alumni have founded a new Scholarship called the Harvard Annex scholarship, which pays the tuition fee of one student. Miss Elizabeth Wright has succeeded Miss Wallace as director of the new gymnasium. The appearance of the college grounds has been greatly improved by tearing down...
...original or in versions. Hitherto only discouragement has met those who have desired a passing acquaintance with the human aspect of Greek literature. They have found themselves in college with but a slight knowledge of Greek and with nothing offered them but courses arranged with a view to technical scholarship. As the result they have naturally been appalled and disheartened. Instead of supplementing their courses in modern literature, English or foreign, with a course in that literature which may almost be called its starting point, they have gone on continually reminded of their ignorance and as continually turned back...
...will of the late Jacob Wendell of New York provides the funds for another Harvard scholarship, the proceeds of which are to go to the best students, whether they be rich ro poor...
Frank Owen White '99 of Boston, who will open the debate for Harvard, prepared for college at the Boston Latin School where he was prominent in military drill and in his studies. At graduation he won a Franklin medal for good scholarship. In his Freshman year he was alternate on the team which defeated the Yale Freshmen. Last year he was a regular speaker in the Harvard-Princeton debate, which Harvard won, and he also took part in several interclub debates. He was formerly secretary of the Harvard Union and is now a member of the University Debating Club. White...