Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...business meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa Society last night the following men were elected to represent the Society in the Student Council: C. L. Sherman '17, W. M. Horton '17, W. Silz '17. The first two and R. M. Foster '17 were appointed to serve on the scholarship committee of the Society. At the next meeting the members of the "Junior Eight" will be elected from the names of the twelve highest ranking Juniors in College, together with 22 Seniors who are selected from the names of the 44 highest Seniors, exclusive of those already members of the Society...
...refreshing to reflect that some of the great universities of the world are still left to promote international good-feeling and tolerance. Oxford, Heidelberg and the Sorbonne are giving academic sanction to the cause of their own countries. German scholarship is found to be pedantic; French scholarship to be superficial. Most intellectual lights, like Sir Gilbert Murray and Gabriele d'Annunzio, have found their refuge in acquiescent, even enthusiastic patriotism. Some like Romain Rolland preach tolerance in a foreign country. Bertrand Russell and Maximilian Harden who insist on academic freedom reap only dishonor among their own people...
...branch, known as the Alpha Chapter of Massachusetts, was founded in 1781. The aim of the society is to gather together those men in each class who lead in scholastic attainments, and thereby to stimulate undergraduate interest in intellectual pursuits. The criterion of election is always the candiate's scholarship record...
Because of the competitive basis of election, the standard necessarily varies from year to year, according to the quality of the leading scholars of each class, but a man who makes the first scholarship group once, on the second list twice, is usually eligible for membership. Intellectual achievements in outside activities are always given due consideration, but can never be regarded as making up for a student's deficiencies in his scholastic ranking at the Office...
...foundation of a "Society for the Promotion of Theological Education in Harvard University," the first class graduated from the school in December, 1817; nine years later the money had been secured for the building of Divinity Hall. For a full century the school has maintained its high ideals of scholarship and its non-sectarian spirit, the latter enjoined by the constitution, which provides that "every encouragement be given to the serious, impartial and unbiased investigation of Christian truth, and that no assent to the peculiarities of any denominations of Christians shall be required of either instructor or students...