Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...people listened to the public press, said Mr. McCall, it would seem that the importance of a college is for athletics, and incidentally, at most, for education. True, there is nothing spectacular in scholarship; but nothing depends more upon individual effort. Athletics ought not to be denounced; athletics are a good thing if indulged in by everybody, and they develop courage; but there is no question of the vast superiority of intellectual work...
...scholarship of today is more exact than ever before, and it will become broader. The real work of scholars is to lay bare the problems of life and to show us the courses to be pursued. We are apt to take for granted the free institutions of this country; but we have now progressed far enough to see that we shall be required to struggle to maintain our political greatness. We threw away our great advantage of political isolation by taking the Philippines; we have changed the Constitution for external policy, and will soon find the Constitution inconvenient for internal...
Seats on the platform will be reserved for members of the Faculty, those on the floor for scholarship, prize and detur winners, and for former winners of Bowdoin prizes. Part of the seats in the first balcony will be reserved for members of the University and invited guests, until 7.55 o'clock, when the public will be admitted. The second balcony will be open to the public throughout. Order of Exercises. Following is the order of exercises: Choral, Beethoven Chapel Choir. Statement of the purposes of the meeting, Dean Hurlbut Address, Hon. S. W. McCall Harvard Hymn. Announcement of Prizes...
...recent meeting of the Corporation it was voted to establish the Edward Erwin Coolidge Scholarship in accordance with the following statement: These four scholarships, two with an income of $200 each, and two with an income of $150 each, were established from the income of the Edward Erwin Coolidge Fund, given in memory of E. E. Coolidge '01 of Natick. These scholarships will be administered as loans and will become due five years after the cessation of the incumbent's connection with Harvard University as a student...
...formation of a membership committee, to report on qualifications of candidates, are urged. In view of the prevalent cry about professionalism in athletics it is interesting and rather amusing to read what a "recent undergraduate of high distinction" has to say concerning the spirit of professionalism present in college scholarship. The opinions expressed parallel those which are often heard in regard to the decadence of amateur collegiate athletics...