Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...course such an argument as this leaves out of consideration all those men whose genuine interest does lead them to do regular work. But their scholarship is presumably high anyway. It is in an improvement by those at the bottom that there is the greatest room to raise the average...
...well on the semi-annual papers by reason of the work done for the frequent tests. This change, then, which in the last analysis is no more than an adaptation of the examination system to the natural inclinations of the average student, should result in better average scholarship...
...following twenty-two Seniors and eight Juniors have been elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Scholarly achievement and scholarly promise have been the basis of election, and a conscientious attempt has been made to do justice to every eligible name. In determining the elections, scholarship grades alone have not been the ultimate grounds for decision; the difficulty of the courses taken and the student's progress throughout his college career have also received due consideration. The names are arranged alphabetically and not according to rank or order of election...
...writings by the most eminent scholars can not be made accessible to others, because of the fact that the commercial publisher can not afford to publish them. In England the presses of Oxford and Cambridge supply this need, and are splendidly equipped with all the necessary type that higher scholarship requires in such fields as Hebrew, Russian, Arabic, and mathematics--a fact which often forces American writers to go to England to have such books printed...
Harvard should have a press such as these. Yale and Columbia have publication endowments which enable them to publish books of much value in scholarship, but they have no press. Princeton has a press but its purpose is narrower. Even the University of Chicago, although it has a press of its own, does not even attempt to take the scholarly position of such as the Clarendon press of Cambridge. Harvard not only has an opportunity to be the first to establish such an institution, but it is in a position to make it successful. Its thought has long been forcing...