Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Papers in many places comment editorially upon the analysis of scholarship at Harvard just made public in the Harvard Graduates Magazine. The investigation covered the college records of 4000 students who qualified as freshmen during the years 1902 to 1912 inclusive, and yielded these results: That 17.7 per cent. of the public school graduates won their degrees cum laude, against 10.3 per cent. of the men from private schools; that 11.8 per cent, of the public school graduates earned the magna cum laude against 4.3 per cent. of the private school students; and that 2.5 per cent. of the public...
...Interscholastic Scholarship Trophy annually awarded by the Harvard Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa to the school whose candidates make the best record at the Admission examination has been won for the year 1919 by the Hotchkiss School at Lakeville, Conn., at which the Reverend H. G. Buehler is headmaster...
...accompanied (together with evidence of character and attainments) by a statement of the course of study which the nominee purposes to take. The tenure is for one year, with power to the council of Trinity College to renew it for a second or third year. The value of the scholarship may be reckoned at about...
Charles Henry Fiske, 3d, in whose memory the scholarship was established, was a member of the Harvard Class of 1919 and before his entrance into Harvard was a student in Trinity College. He was mortally wounded on August 12, 1918, near Fismes, where he was serving as a second lieutenant in the 11th Regiment of the 28th Division, United States Army. This is the second scholarship in his honor, his parents having established one at Harvard last spring to enable a French student to get his education here...
...desire to offer themselves as candidates for the scholarship during the year 1920-21 are requested to notify President Lowell in writing at their early convenience...