Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Four scholarships, two Crowninshield 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...
...awarding the Scholarship of the Class of 1867, preference will be given to children or grandchildren of members of that class...
Another prize of $50 for a translation into Latin of the passage in Phillips Brooks's "On the Purposes of Scholarship" (Essays and Addresses), pp. 269-272, beginning with the words "Judged thus, we cannot believe that the old classical culture can be spared...
...average undergraduate apparently does not realize that the Degree with Distinction was created by the Faculty with a definite purpose and not merely as an additional ornament to an ordinary degree. It was established in the hope of arousing an effective desire for high-standard scholarship, and to fill the place of the "honors" in English universities, where the importance attached to distinguished intellectual attainment is very great. There high honors are always remembered and constantly referred to throughout a man's life. Referring to this, President Lowell said: "It is that spirit which must be cultivated here...
...University, apart from his teaching, was his organization of the Department of English. He was chairman of the Department for many years, and the development of courses of study in the later periods of literature was largely his work. His views were broad and generous. He valued scholarship wherever be found it, even when it lay outside of his own particular interests. He was, in fact, the least dogmatic of men, despite the impression to the contrary which his vigorous way of speaking frequently made upon those who did not know him well. He was a firm believe in free...