Word: scholarships
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Pursuant to this action, there will be thrown open to competition by all students, at the entrance examinations in September, 1884, six scholarships, of the value of two hundred dollars each; in September, 1885, six more scholarships, of the same value; in September 1866, six more; and in September 1887, six more-making the entire number of such scholarships twenty-four. And from the income of the second fund there will also be thrown open to competition by women at the entrance examinations in September, 1884, three scholarships of the value of two hundred dollars each; in september, 1885, three...
...compulsory work in freshman year, and this can only be done by a change in the work required from the preparatory schools. Raising the standard for admission would bring about several desirable results: It would bring an older class of men here from the schools; it would raise the scholarship both of the college and the school; it would give a year more for following out any particular branch a man may elect. Nearly every one feels how short a time three years is to accomplish anything definite, and the added year would go far to make the college education...
...class of '86," Mr. Barnes ; "Scholarship," Mr. Huddleston ; "the '86 eleven," Mr. Austin ; "the '86 crew," Mr. Harris ; "the annex," Mr. La Monte ; "the HERALD-CRIMSON," Mr. Frye ; "the Lampoon," Mr. W. W. Baldwin ; "the Advocate," Mr. Atherton ; "the Harvard Union," Mr. Merriam ; "the Harvard Total Abstinence League," Mr. Lincoln ; "the university eleven," Mr. Kimball ; "the Harvard Shooting Club," Mr. Abbot ; "the committee," Mr. J. S. Wright ; "the ladies," Mr. Santayana. The speeches were interspersed with songs, under the direction of Mr. Mason, the chorister, and the following gentlemen gave solos : Messrs. Barnes, Edgerly, Mason, Haughton, Harrison, Guild, Merriam, Dewey...
...their health. People who live in college towns will testify that with the increase in athletic sports there has been a decrease in the number of student escapades which disturb the peace and injure the property of their victims. Has it ever been charged that the average of scholarship was any lower since these days of athletics came? Is not rather the motto of the college student of today, "Mens Ana in corpora sano...
...Abbott was a man of great leaning, being unexcelled in this country in Biblical criticism and scholarship. He was extremely devoted to his work and was always ready to lend a helping hand to any scholar without exacting hand to any scholar without exacting any return. The most striking feature of his career is the great labor he has bestowed on the works of other men. As this in most cases received but slight acknowledgment, It is impossible to give a complete list of his works, which are very numerous. He was one of the American committee appointed to assist...