Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...show that there are more colleges of learning in Ohio than in any state of the Union, or for that matter in the world.** I believe the number is 50. West Virginia has 9. Yet what college or University in Ohio has the national ranking of West Virginia in scholarship or athletics? For the past ten years, West Virginia's football team has been rated among the best ten teams in the country. In 1919 and 1920 they drubbed Princeton, Colgate, Dartmouth, Pittsburgh and Washington-Jefferson, (this the heydey of the great Rodgers) and later...
...peculiarly American sea off the coast of Maine, where much of The Henchman was written. Both these admirers were trying to express their feeling that Miss Millay is racially important; that, burning her candle early and late, for light of love and long hours of devoted folk-scholarship, she embodies both the high, bright folly and the brave integrity of a race given equally to deeds and dreaming...
Olin Alvin Saunders, was born in Cambridge, and here under the shadow of John Harvard's walls he spent most of his youth. Now he has been granted a scholarship by the Princeton Club of New York which sends him to Yale for four years...
...annual dance held each year to support the Circulo's scholarship awards will be given on April...
...second point--the effect of the automobile on standards of scholarship, records at Princeton would seem to prove its validity. Nevertheless the ratio of low grades to the number of automobiles in a university is governed--as in all such proportions of virtue as opposed to temptation--by the strength of character which the individual possesses. To prevent a student of high ranking from driving an automobile is to give unpleasant medicine to a healthy person. If automobiles do affect scholarship they should be forbidden to those on whom the effect is unfortunate--the others might in all justice remain...