Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Warren has maintained at college the high position in scholarship which he attained at school. He was the only '96 man in the Latin play, and took second year honors in classics and History. He was in the first eight chosen last year for the Phi Beta Kappa...
...writer of this article seems to think that there are no high honors in the University open to the rich student. He appears to think that no prize that does not actually bear the name of scholarship is worth the scholar's winning. This is a mere confusion of terms. There are high honors in every department of the University that the rich scholar may win, and every one understands that the prizes are the reward for excellent scholarship, call them by what names you will...
...writer in one place speaks of the stimulus that liberal prizes like the scholarships would be to the rich man. What powerful incentive would money be to the man who already has plenty? The chief incentive to such a man would be the honor gained, and there are higher honors open to the scholar than those which are called scholarships. If the scholarships were open to those men who had plenty of money, it would be hardly fair to the poorer students. A rich man would feel when he won a scholarship that the money would far better have gone...
...duty of maintaining the honor of Ninety-six in scholarship rests with the students who are entitled to Commencement Parts, for these men are the scholars of the class. There should be no hesitation among the men to whom the privilege of competing for a part has been given. Their duty should be a pleasure, and not only the class but the whole University has a right to expect that they will acquit themselves with credit...
...Henley regatta in July. Special permission was given the crew to sail on June 6, before the close of the semi-annual examinations, in order that the members of the crew might have time to become acclimated before the race. The navy management was informed. however, that scholarship must be maintained and no candidate whose scholarship is in doubt will be allowed to represent Yale at Henley. A mass meeting of the university will be held soon to ratify the action of the faculty...