Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...intercollegiate games, or for annual meetings and reunions during term time, has now reached a point where some kind of restrictive action would seem to be called for. The number of absences required by these games and annual reunions is more than is consistent with the best results of scholarship. The weeks allotted to actual work in the present academic year of the colleges are too few to warrant the ever-recurring interruptions. Athletic sports are admirable when engaged in, as means to health and physical vigor. but when pursued for their own sake, or as a preparation for intercollegiate...
...never come in last, while at the same time she has put excellent men in the university boat. In general athletics and foot-ball she has done more than her fair share of the work, while her freshman nine, although unable to defeat Yale, made a good showing. In scholarship she compares favorably with any class Harvard has sent forth, the average being a very high one. The college will join us in wishing to '83, as a fitting ending to a successful college course of four years, a pleasant class...
...parents everywhere. They see, if teachers do not, that the real object of education in American colleges should be not to elevate the reputation of this or that college or faculty, nor to train a few exceptional intellects among pupils, nor even for a time to foster high scholarship, but to develop the capabilities of every grade of students, to encourage, not stamp upon, the dull, stimulate the idle, fit even the most stupid for the humble place that he will hold. The faculty and college that soonest recognize this fact and act upon it will not only command...
...Since you have deemed it best that the speakers for commencement day should hereafter be appointed on what has always, tacitly, at least, been understood as the basis, viz., the student's 'general scholarship, literary ability and conduct throughout the course,' and since we do not believe it right that we should accept appointments which thus distinguish certain of our number as 'honor girls,' we respectfully ask that, in our case at least, no honor list shall in any way be announced, and that commencement exercises, as conducted by the students, be omitted. Our own wish would be that...
...candidates for a degree, and that in making selections, as all the candidates cannot speak, in their opinion the most practicable method is according to the principles stated in their action of February 26, namely, that appointments be given according to the student's record of general scholarship, her literary ability and her conduct during her college course...