Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From 1917 to 1925, it might be well to point out here, one of the outstanding events connected with the annual Jubilee was the awarding of the Sophomore Class Memorial Scholarship of $400 to the Freshman who had made the most progress in athletics, extra-curriculum activities, and studies since entering College. The award was initiated by the Class of 1919 in the year 1917 when the Jubilee was not held but thereafter it was one of the high-lights of the celebration. The winner became the hero of the hour when called forth to receive the plaudits...
...lanterns, music, laughter, and one of the largest crowds of merry-makers on record detracted from the effectiveness of the winning Smith Halls chorus. In 1925 the singers attracted even less interest, and the class of 1929 saw them fade from the picture at the same time the Memorial Scholarship award was discontinued. A new era dawned for the Jubilee. It became a dance, no more
Concerning Professor Rollins. Professor Rollins is a typical Harvard man. He is a brilliant scholar, and has produced several books in which he has shown in addition to his rare scholarship, an unusual taste and appreciation for fine literature. He is a gentleman, a quality of which few of us boast nowadays. And he is an excellent teacher for those who have the ability and desire to learn...
...examination not much interested in the spirit and essance of poetry. His interest sems to be centered in novels, chronology and similar bricks and mortar of literature. This is after all a good and typically scholarly point of view: but it is to be questioned whether this sort of scholarship is the aim of many of those who listen to his lectures. (Name withheld by request...
...that it was of the opinion that such a power would be unenforceable and unwise. "The tradition at Harvard," said Dean Hanford, "has been largely that of laissez-faire in regard to the policies and actions of organizations so far as those policies and actions have not affected scholarship and academic standing." He felt that if censorship were to be exercised, it should come from the students themselves through the Council, but that he doubted whether at the present time there were any need for such control...