Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...scholarships--the Scholarship of the Class of 1867 and the Mary L. Whitney Scholarship--will be awarded, shortly after the beginning of the second half-year, to Freshmen who are deserving and in need of assistance. In awarding the former, preference will be given to children or grandchildren of members of the class...
Last day for receiving applications for the two Freshman scholarships--the Scholarship of the Class of 1867 and the Mary L. Whitney Scholarship...
...feature connected with the list of scholars announced this morning is the large proportion of their number who prepared for College at public high schools. Last year at this time the CRIMSON pointed out that while on the average one man in ten of the entire College won a scholarship, only one in thirty of those who prepared at certain private boarding schools in New England, of which St. Mark's and Pomfret are typical, reached this rank...
What must be the deduction from the figures? Obviously, that the graduates of the high schools, man for man, far outshine the graduates of the private schools in scholarship at College. The champions of the private schools may say that their graduates do not make the same effort for high scholastic standing as the high school men, and that their loss in this field is more than offset by success in the so-called "outside activities" of College. After all, this answer does little more than beg the question. "Outside activities" may be of great value in an all-round...
...matter of fact the relative success of graduates of public and private schools in scholarship at Harvard is not a very accurate method of judging the ability of these schools even in the field of developing scholars, leaving aside the question of their ability in producing useful and efficient citizens. While from 90 to 95 per cent, of the men at a boarding school usually go to college, the worst scholars along with the best, quite a different condition obtains at the high schools. There, many leave to go directly to work, while those who enter College...