Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...individual fitness is allowed to play a part. There are as many different temperaments in a college community as there are different men. All cannot be made to conform to the same standard. The attempt to establish such a standard gives us merely the out-word form of scholarship and not its real benefits. The worth of a liberal study does not depend primarily upon the subject matter studied but upon the response which it awakens in a student...
...holds an honorary degree from the University of Dublin. He is a brilliant classical scholar and has written or edited many works, among which are "Euripides' 'Bacchae'," "Clcero's 'Orator'," and "Aristotle's 'Constitution of Athens'." One of Dr. Sandys' most recent works is a "History of Classical Scholarship from the Athenian Age to the End of the Middle Ages." He has been a contributor to the Classical Review since...
Under the auspices of the Cantabrigia Club of Cambridge Professor W. H. Pickering, of the Astronomical Observatory, will deliver an illustrated lecture on "The Moon," at Epworth Church on Tuesday, April 4. The proceeds of the lecture will be given to the Radcliffe Scholarship Fund...
...economy strictly necessary expenses need not exceed $400: Every student should have this sum or a large part of it before entering, for, without it he is obliged during the first year to do work which draws him away from his studies and may prevent him from earning a scholarship...
Miss Mary Phillips Webster gave a successful concert-lecture on "Music in England in Shakespere's Time" in the Fogg Lecture Room last evening for the benefit of the Radcliffe musical scholarship fund. The age of Queen Elizabeth was particularly a musical one, she said. The gayety of the times and the growth of the masque fostered the development of music, especially vocal music. The prominent composers of the time were John Benet, John Wilbye, Thomas Ford, Peter Phillips, Thomas Campion, and William Byrd. Selections from their compositions were very well received...