Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...interest to note that while the Corporation, Overseers and Faculty are trying to secure a greater prominence to high scholarship in the University, the graduate students at Harvard in cooperation with those of other institutions are taking the initiative in an effort to give to the degrees of Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy, for which many of them are working, a significance which lax requirements in some universities and the granting of one or both degrees honoris causa in all, have in some measure destroyed...
Members of the University will be glad to learn that President William J. Tucker of Dartmouth College is to preach at Appleton Chapel tomorrow evening. As a professor of the Andover Theological Seminary, Dr. Tucker was well known throughout the country for his breadth of thought and thorough scholarship. Since he has been at Dartmouth his administration has already been marked by the steady development of the college. Whatever he has to say to Harvard men is sure to be of great interest...
...given by the Emmanuel Club of Radcliffe College on December 14 and 18. May I be allowed a few lines to state the object of the performance? The Emmanuel Club annually pays the tuition of one deserving student at Radcliffe, and it is in aid of this scholarship fund that the play is to be given. The knowledge of this may influence a larger number to purchase tickets, and so it seems only right to bring it before your readers...
Professor Munro, the chairman of the Brown University Athletic Committee, has composed a report on the general scholarship of the athletes at that university. His report shows the average standing of the athletes to be unusually high. The average standing of twenty-one members of the football team was 77.07 per cent. The fifteen men on the baseball team who competed in any game had averages of 73.10 per cent. One senior stood fifth in his class; another was awarded two degrees for extra work. Professor Munro's report shows that neither football nor baseball are injurious to the scholarship...
...fund of more than $6,000, contributed by friends during Mrs. Agassiz's absence in Europe, is given to Redcliffe on her return, entirely without conditions, for the establishing of a scholarship to be called the Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Scholarship...