Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...making an assignment of a scholarship under the present system, the facts considered are the needs of the student and his promise as indicated by his work in College. A student not in need of aid can not honorably apply for a scholarship, nor can a scholarship be awarded to one who from physical, mental or moral weakness, gives little promise of future usefulness...
...second speaker will be Charles W. Clark '97, of New York. Clark has taken more prizes for scholarship than any man in his class, and is an ex-president of the Yale Union. Last year he was on the Yale team that won from Princeton...
...distinction to be gained by winning one of these prizes, they would undoubtedly attract more attention than they do at present, and it seems as though every possible means should be taken to gain this end; for, as incentives to original research and means of raising the standard of scholarship they cannot be valued too highly. It has always been the custom, however, not to award the prizes until autumn and then there is no special occasion at which the names of the winners are announced together. As a result most students never even hear the names of those...
Wilson Ward Wormelle, who died Saturday last, graduated from the Boston Latin School in 1890, after which he held a position in the Boston water works at the Reservoir for three years. He then entered Boston College in '93, where he took a scholarship and won a prize for high standing in mathematics...
...academic distinction that there was fifty years ago. As ninety-seven has been such a representative class in other ways it is to be hoped that all the men who are fitted to try for parts will do so and thus make the record of their class in scholarship as good as it has been in other things...