Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...representative of the main body of students. No society, no interest predominates. Among the delegates are men who have taken part in the various athletic sports, rowing, base-ball, foot-ball, and in the contests of the track and the gymnasium. Other interests are by no means neglected. The scholarship of the college is well represented by the three scholars of highest rank in the several classes. Then to the great mass, of students who are neither athletic nor especially studious are not deprived of able representation. With such delegates we feel that the success of the Conference Committee...
...student is admitted to College with conditions, such conditions will stand against him, unless for special excellence of scholarship during part or all of his first college year, the Faculty, on recommendation of the class instructors, cancel them. All such conditions not so canceled will be treated like conditions on college studies in accordance with the provisions of Rule...
...honorable place that '85 has made. No class has been more patriotic in regard to matters pertaining to the college; no class on the whole has left a better record behind it. In athletics, '85 has been especially prominent, and every college team has received its support. In scholarship it has taken a high rank, and each of the papers can bear witness to the ability and earnest work of the senior boards...
...become, under the habit of bestowing honorary degrees, a time not of recognizing merit and rewarding it, but an occasion for an undignified attempt to increase the influence of a college by giving men, eminent in other departments than in learning, titles which are properly the reward of only scholarship and high literary ability. This evil does not exist to as great a degree in our larger colleges that have reputations, and are careful of them, as it does in the smaller institutions of learning, that are eager to claim some great man as an adopted son, and therefore select...
...Graduate scholarship have been assigned to T. W. Harris, '84, M. W. Haskell, '83, J. M. Patton, '84, and G. W. Sawin...