Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Mr. Bennett was welcomed to the Commons in his new capacity by Premier King (Liberal) who, as usual, turned many a felicitous phrase anent the new leader of His Majesty's Opposition: ". . . natural endowments . . . ripe scholarship . . . large and comprehensive grasp . . . high legal attainments . . . welcome [as] Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition...
...requirements of courses and credits are too rigid. You may feel that our community puts too much emphasis on the sports which we call athletics. But I hope none of these things will discourage you, and I think you will not find a lack of facilities for scholarship. Magnificent libraries and laboratories are open to you, and scholars of experience in almost any field are here to assist your explorations. I think that some of you will find that your greatest handicap will be that which Dean Ezra Thayer once characterized as "the central tragedy of life," that there...
...bequest, "to Harvard University for the general purposes of the University" 742,232.00 Estate of R. D. Bell: His bequest, the "income . . . shall be expended for the benefit of the Department of Biological Chemistry . . . in the Harvard Medical School" 100,000.00 Carnegie Corporation of New York: Fellowships and Scholarships in the Division of Music--Endowment 40,700.00 Class of 1902: Additional, to complete their gift of $150,000 60,984.96 Judge G. A. Carpenter 'SS and Mrs. Carpenter: G. B. Carpenter '24: Mrs. E. J. Bermingham: To "establish "The Isham Carpenter Scholarship in memory of Isham Carpenter . . . the income...
...senior college is restricted to men of proved ability. "The senior college has no fixed program that can briefly be described. The method is that of independent study under Faculty guidance. The student according to his bent is free to browse or concentrate . . . but a superior degree of scholarship is always expected...
...superficial. Professor Mather believes that with the student's purpose definitely known and concentration excluded the curriculum could comprise an organized plan of survey course that would merit, in accordance with the European custom, a baccalaureate degree. And the high standards of such segregation would allow in the scholarship, free from extra-curricular activity, in the senior college would justify the granting of a degree of Master of Arts to its graduate. The baccalaureate given to graduates from Professor Mather's junior college, however, could not compare with the same degree given in the leading universities now. Although it would...