Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Richard Perkins Parker Scholarship for this year has been awarded to R.C. Berresford '28, following a meeting of the Corporation, it was announced yesterday...
...This scholarship is given annually to a student of "high character and ability, who shall have demonstrated his qualifications both by intellectual achievement and by participation in the student activities" of the University. This scholarship, one of the most noteworthy awards of the University, was founded in 1923 by friends and classmates of R.P. Parker '22, of Salem, who was killed in an airplane accident near Paris the year year before his graduation...
College authorities who have deplored the over-emphasis on sport, which they largely attribute to the stimulus provided by competition and loyalty to alma mater, will now have a chance to see whether this same incentive applied to scholarship will act as an inspiration for better work in the classroom. We are a little skeptical but open-minded...
With the announcement of a gift of $ 125,000 by Mrs. William Lowell Putnam for the promotion of scholarship through contests between various colleges an entirely new field of intercollegiate competition is opened up. No longer will the undergraduate desirous of contributing to the fame of his college or of winning renown for himself be forced to direct his energies to athletic achievement or to be content with the vague assurance that in devoting himself assiduously to his studies he is somehow adding to the intellectual prestige of his Alma Mater and storing up future treasures for himself...
...Yale can compare the efforts of their leading students on the same examinations without the accompaniment of glowing press accounts, and without creating the impressions that the results obtained are to be regarded as a criterion of the educational efficacy of the two colleges the cause of undergraduate scholarship in both should be greatly benefited; if not, a new distortion of values in the American college will be in the process of development...