Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...light of all the efforts that have been made within the last ten years to free athletics from professionalism, it might be well to consider professionalism in scholarship. Whereas the athlete after months of faithfulness and perseverance earns the right to wear the University insignia, and looks upon this as sufficient reward, the compensation most known to the public for scholarship here is a money prize. Perhaps this difference in the kind of reward given to athletes and to scholars may in a slight measure account for the difference of esteem in which the two are held by college...
...those who are the most deserving. Though this is true to a certain extent, the same result would be accomplished in a less bald way by a committee who should look into the needs of successful scholars, and in this way remove the cheapening effect of money prizes upon scholarship...
...following twenty-two Seniors and eight Juniors have been chosen members of 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 determinating the elections scholarship grades alone have not been the ultimate ground of 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...
William Chase Greene '11, of Baltimore, Md., has been chosen as Rhodes Scholar from Massachusetts by the committee of selection, of which President Lowell is chairman. Greene has been awarded two John Harvard scholarships, one Harvard College scholarship, and a detur. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa, and is one of its three representatives on the Student Council...
Besides his success in athletics, Burr received a Harvard College scholarship for his academic work during his last year in College. He had been a member of the Governing Board of the Union since 1909 and represented the Law School on the Union Library Committee. He had just begun his second year's work in the Law School when he was taken...