Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Amherst faculty has decided to put into practice during the coming year the new system of chapel and church monitorships, which was outlined last year when objection was made by the '95 honor men to serving as monitors. The appointments will not be made on the basis of high scholarship, and hereafter the four monitors will not necessarily be the four best scholars in the senior class. Applications will be received by the faculty and the appointments will be made on the basis of pecuniary assistance to needy and worthy students...
...long been need of a periodical devoted entirely to history. Considering the large number of historical scholars and writers and the growing interest in their subject, it seems fitting to establish a medium through which they may communicate to each other the results of their own work, bring American scholarship into relations with that of other countries and place before the public in interesting literary form trustworthy views and conclusions on historical subjects...
...principles laid down by the conference are very simple. The Review should include articles in a variety of historical fields; and nothing should be admitted that does not bear the marks of accurate historical scholarship. Of the two hundred pages of each quarterly number, about fifty pages should be devoted to book reviews, prepared so far as possible by experts, and either unsigned or signed as the writers may prefer. There should be space for notes and news about historical books and writers. There should also be a department for the publication of inedited documents which contain historical material...
Accordingly, twelve Brooklyn scholarships for boys were established in Columbia College and twelve Brooklyn scholarships for girls in Barnard College. The Brooklyn scholarships are to be awarded by competition to Brooklyn boys and girls prepared for college in any school in Brooklyn, either public or private. They are to be offered three a year, beginning with the autumn of 1896, and each scholarship is to be held for the full college course of four years. The winner of a scholarship is to have the privilege of assigning the income of a scholarship to any other competitor, while retaining for himself...
AMHERST, MASS., May 1. - At the faculty meeting this afternoon the following eight members of the senior class were chosen, on a basis of scholarship, to speak at Commencement, June 26: Charles T. Burnett, Turners Falls, Mass. ; Reuben W. Burnham, Gloucester, Mass.; George R. Critchlow, New Brighton, Penn.; Warner W. Elliott, Rittman, Ohio; Henry W. Lane, Keene, N. H.; Dwight W. Morrow, Allegheny, Penn.; Benjamin E. Ray, Florence, Mass.; Jay T. Stocking, Lisbon Centre...