Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Five men from the class of 1909 have been elected additional members of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. These men are elected from those members of the Senior class who, although they have not qualified as regular candidates for admission to the society, have attained distinguished excellence in scholarship and have shown ability in other intellectual interests...
...following names are arranged alphabetically, and not according to rank in scholarship or order of election...
...next qualifying examination for the Rhodes Scholarship will be held next October. On the basis of these examinations the award will probably be made in January, 1910, and the successful candidate from Massachusetts will go into residence in Oxford in October, 1910. The scholarship is for three years, and carries an annual stipend...
President Eliot, as chairman of the committee of selection for Massachusetts, has received a statement from Mr. George R. Parkin, the administrative head of the Rhodes Scholarship Trust, in which he explains that students from the United States who have passed the qualifying examinations in Latin and mathematics shall be eligible, even though they may not have passed in Greek. The trustees have taken this step in order to bring the scholarship within the reach of students of marked ability who have not prepared in Greek...
...scholarly work in two volumes. By the large amount of patient industry which it represented, the soundness of the opinions which it contained, and the vigorous style in which it was written, this work at once commanded wide attention, and it is mainly because of the accurate and broad scholarship displayed in these volumes that Mr. Porritt was invited to give instruction at Harvard. As an active journalist Mr. Porritt is well known both in Europe and in America, and his regular letters to leading English journals on matters of American politics always interest a large circle of readers...