Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...following scholarships were awarded: Joseph Eveleth Scholarship to George Thomas Paine, M. I. T.; Daniel A. Buckley Scholarships to Gilbert Edward Gayler and Clement Taggart Bates 2GB, of Cambridge; Harvard Club of San Francisco Scholarship to James Douglass Adams uL, of Palo Alto, Cal., and the Associated Harvard Clubs Scholarship to John Stuart Dudley 1L, of Columbia, South Carolina...
Voted on recommendation of the Administrative Board of the Medical School to award the following first-year Medical School students scholarships for the year 1916-17: David Williams Cheever Scholarship to G. E. Cheley; Francis Skinner Fund to R. D. Stillman; George Haven Scholarships to M. Alderman, G. E. Gayler, D. D. Lyon, H. B. Marble, E. C. Romberg, H. S. Fickle, W. E. Savage, J. M. Lonely, R. E. Merrill, E. E. O'Neil, W. D. Scudder, S. H. Weiner, R. R. Wheeler, W. A. Yoakam...
...strong and self-confident opinions and positive expression, he was a kindly spirit, hospitable, generous, appreciative of others. His mental energy seemed limitless, his industry tireless, his optimism unquenchable. He exemplified his own ideal of productive scholarship, and carried to the grave with him plans for more books than most of us would think of achieving in a lifetime
...reproach. He alluded, of course, to the sneer which always accompanies the word "highbrow". It is a condition which should cause us serious reflection. One of the faults of a democracy lies apparently in the fact that while education is more widely diffused its quality is somewhat diluted. High scholarship is not honored in America as it is abroad. Other countries recognize the attainments of their learned citizens by some particular distinction: England by knighthood, France by membership in one of the famous learned societies. Efforts have frequently been made here to establish some such governmental honor, but Congress...
...years ago it has accomplished a great tieal, particularly last year which was an extremely good one, but so far this season only nine men have taken advantage of the opportunity. No direct tutoring is undertaken, but men who apply for assistance are advised by those who have achieved scholarship standing in the particular courses with which they are having difficulty. The Bureau simply endeavors to show men the best methods of study and how to take notes properly. No charge is made for any services given...