Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...college education to a student consists, not in the abundance of opportunities he neglects, but in those of which he takes advantage. From colleges in different parts of the country have been heard general complaints that students not engaged in professional work have far too little desire for sound scholarship, and slender respect for those who work hard; while athletic triumphs are regarded as of vast importance. Now, it is a very significant fact that this condition is not due in the main to a sincere belief that prowess in sports is intrinsically of greater value than intellectual achievement. Almost...
...provide that no student shall gradnate with a merely superficial education, or one that is too narrow in scope, is certainly an advance; but to stimulate a more general interest in scholarship is a far greater and far more difficult matter. It cannot be done merely by raising the standard for degree, for that is merely raising the minimum. A minimum requirement can never be really high nor act as an incentive to exertion for men of superior capacity; and it is not impossible that by constantly harping upon the minimum we have actually lessened the desire for excellence...
...Long '57, after a few amusing remarks, joined in the tribute, already expressed by the toastmaster, to the Faculty and honor students. In this age of extravagance, the Faculty, which keeps up the standards of scholarship and loves learning for its own sake, is one of the great redeeming influences of our modern life. In closing, he mentioned the elective system as one of the many branches of the University which President Lowell is striving to improve...
...Sciences and to the first group of scholars of the University at the Hotel Somerset, Boston, this evening at 8 o'clock. Last November the club gave a dinner to the victorious crews of 1909, and last year the custom of giving a reception for students distinguished for scholarship and for the Faculty was in-augurated...
...generally deplored that academic honors in College are not a greater object of ambition among undergraduates. There are many reasons for this lamentable attitude towards scholarship, not least among which is the actual character of many of the examination papers. That this has been recognized is proved by the appointment some time ago of a committee from the Faculty "to consider how tests for rank in College may be made a more generally recognized measure of intellectual power...