Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...dilemma exists: the instructors may reduce the quantity or the quality of work required. That way will hardly be taken: Dean Briggs, if I remember rightly, recently gave to the New York graduates the assurance that the standard of the A. B. degree would not be lowered. But if scholarship is not to be cheapened, something else is going to suffer. The inestimable educative value--using educative in its noblest sense,--of a Senior year with four courses and plenty of time for those other occupations which bring maturity of mind and breadth of culture, will be exchanged...
...University has received from Mrs. John Markoe of Philadelphia $5000 for the establishment of the Markoe Scholarship in Harvard College in memory of her son James Markoe, a member of the Class of 1889, who recently lost his life in a runaway accident while attempting to save the lives of others...
...raise the quality of the instruction throughout all the courses and half-courses offered by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, it is obvious that the candidate who shall hereafter obtain the Harvard degree in three years will have to give, on the average, distinct evidences of higher scholarship than has been expected of his predecessors in any former generation...
...meeting of prominent educators of Massachusetts. Rhode Island, and Connecticut, was held in University Hall on Saturday to discuss the method of selecting American students to be given the scholarships at Oxford University established by the Cecil Rhodes bequest. The meeting was held at the invitation of Dr. G. W. Parkin of Toronto, representative in America of the Rhodes Scholarship Trust. Those present included representatives from the universities, colleges, and secondary schools of the three states mentioned. The principal topic under discussion was the question of whether the scholarships should be awarded only to college graduates or should also include...
...Connecticut, including representatives of the universities and colleges of those states will hold a conference this morning at 10 o'clock in the Faculty Room of University Hall, with Dr. George R. Parkin of Toronto, who is now in the United States as the representative of the Rhodes Scholarship Trust. Methods to be followed in allotting the Oxford Scholarships provided for American students by the Cecil Rhodes bequest, will be discussed. President Eliot will preside...