Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same rigor was applied in scholarship and discipline. It was Mr. O's pride that Pomfret boys have more than held their own among boys from bigger schools both in studies and athletics. The most unusual mind (Schuyler B. Jackson. 1922) that Princeton has had in years was awakened at Pomfret. Yale's Mallory and Harvard's Buell were Pomfret bred footballers of recent fame. From Pomfret to Harvard went a great stroke oar, George Appleton; for Pomfret, like Kent, is one of the few rowing schools...
...plan advanced in the school paper to introduce a combination of the concentration and tutorial systems into the Choate School curriculum, while commendable because of the interest shown in individual scholarship, is a rather far step from the purpose of the secondary school. According to the outline proposed, the Choate News advocates a modification to some degree of the Harvard tutorial system, placing at the disposal of the high-ranking student the advantage of preparing special work aside from classroom courses under supervision of the masters. The project is similar to the Harvard system in that it allows sufficient opportunity...
Announcement of holders of travelling fellowships and scholarships of the Harvard School of Architecture has been made by G. H. Edgell '09, dean of the school. The Nelson Robinson Jr. Travelling Fellowship in Architecture, established for 18 months of travel and study, has been granted to J. L. Cannon '26. The Julia Amory Appleton Travelling Fellowships in Architecture, also for a year and a half of peripatetic study, are held by C. O. Root and C. T. Larson '25. One of the travelling fellowships from the Frederick Sheldon Fund, which was established for a student of promise in any school...
...that it might almost be called natural. Or, perhaps, Harvard has not so much ruled out the yeast as to remove all those leavening distractions which to some degree save the student from the set and sterile point of view of its academic side, its ever-encroaching zeal for "scholarship", and the bugbear of the graduate schools. Our critics are wont to accuse us of being unbalanced if not actually drunk, however...
...scholastic award known as the Edward Whitaker Prize Scholarship has been established at Harvard, according to an announcement by University authorities. This scholarship was made possible by a gift of Mrs. Samuel Davis. Later a second Edward Whitaker award will be established...