Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Class of 1919, following the example set by the Class of 1918 a year ago, has decided to make a gift to the University in the form of a scholarship. Last year's gift was the sun dial between Smith and Standish Halls...
...discussion of the matter last spring, determined to continue the precedent set by the present Junior Class of making a gift to the University. It was decided that there were too few material gifts which would be suitable to continue this custom for many years, so that when a scholarship was suggested the executive board decided upon this plan as the wisest. It felt that it would thus establish a precedent in the power of succeeding classes to continue, and which would at the same time do some definite good...
...terms of this scholarship are different from those of any other. It is awarded by the officers of the class to the Freshman who has had the best record in his preparatory school, but who would be unlikely to come to the University without pecuniary aid. This record includes studies, school activities, both religious and social, and athletics, though prominence in the latter branch is not a necessary requisite. These terms are intended to give the impression in preparatory schools that there is here an opportunity for such men to come to the University with scholarship assistance...
...soon as the gift was decided upon letters were written to the headmasters of the various preparatory schools in which they were asked to suggest candidates for the scholarship. The plans were made so late in the spring, however, that this was done imperfectly. Another reason for awarding the scholarship at so late a date this fall is on ac- count of the necessary delay that occured before it was passed on by the Administrative Board on Scholarships...
...following scholarships and fellowships were awarded: Whiting Fellowship to H. W. Lamson 1G; University Scholarship to K. C. Basu 1G; Lady Mowlson Scholarship to A. K. Small 1G; University Scholarship in Architecture to J. J. Liebenberg 1SA; Lincoln Scholarship to F. B. Sargent 1M, and the William S. Murphy Scholarships, to be given, according to the request of the donor, only to men bearing the name of Murphy, to William Andrew Murphy 1M, Clifton Murphy 1L and Gardner Murphy...