Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...addition to this development in salaries for instruction, the university during these 10 years has increased its scholarship endowed $86,300 and its fellowship endowed $428,000; while the annual budget of the library, has increased for $14,560 to $18,600. During this period gifts of money to the library for the purchase of book have amounted...
...following twenty-two Seniors and eight Juniors have been elected to 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 determining the elections, scholarship grades alone have not been the ultimate grounds for decision; the difficulty of the courses taken and the student's progress throughout his college career have also, received due consideration. The names of the successful candidates are arranged below alphabetically, and not according to order to election...
...percentage from each class becomes smaller. Competition has also grown keener, and hence the honor won by the men whose names are announced this morning is greater than it was in former days. The elections, moreover, have been conducted as fairly as a college grading system will allow, and scholarship has been the only standard. To men who have been busy in College affairs and have also made the Society, this is distinctly added honor; to others it is, of course, an achievement in itself very much worth while...
...other endowment is in memory of E. B. Thompson, Yale '04, whose life was lost when the Lusitania sank. A scholarship of $600 annually in the Sheffield Scientific School is to be awarded to graduates of the Shield High School, Seymuor, Md., from which institution Mr. Thompson was graduated. The fund is established by his widow...
...Scholarship Service Bureau of Phi Beta Kappa will start the season's work today, with regular office hours beginning this afternoon at 1.30 o'clock. These office hours will be held in Weld 44 every Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday from 1.30 to 3 o'clock. At these times members of the Board of Advisors of the Bureau will be present to see all men who wish assistance or advice on anything concerning their studies. The Board will assign each man to an undergraduate advisor, chosen from a list of men who have achieved some standing in scholarship. These advisors will...