Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...however, highly desirable that these methods be officially and clearly defined. The constitution of the Society merely states that "scholarship and good character shall be the grounds of election." But traditions are frail, and those which Phi Beta Kappa has built up for its elections could well be set forth in the by-laws and made accessible in print to the members. At present continuity is attained only through the few Junior members whose interest leads them to attend elections at which they have no vote...
...Beta Kappa is not a secret organization: it rewards scholarship in the entire College. And it is in the belief that it discharges that function in ways essentially satisfactory that this suggestion for crystallizing those methods is offered. Care should be taken that future members appreciate the fact that it is scholarship alone, freed from all personal considerations, upon which they are to base their elections...
...await results from these before extending the work. The tuition fee was increased partly in order to remove that discouragement to donors which was created by the existence of the deficit, and it is to be hoped that funds will now be found to strengthen such important fields of scholarship as this...
...annual Rhodes Scholarship examinations will be held in every state of the Union next October, and the successful candidates will be sent over to Oxford in spite of the war. These scholarships bring an annual stipend of $1500 which lasts for three years. This sum is sufficient to meet all current expenses at Oxford, and to enable considerable travelling during the summer. Information may be secured from G. H. Gifford '13, Balliol College, Oxford, England, who is one of the present scholarship holders from Massachusetts or from President Lowell, who is chairman of the Massachusetts Committee of Selection...
...last meeting of the Corporation the following three scholarships were assigned: Winthrop scholarship to N. Utsurikawa 1G., George W. Dilaway fellowship to C. H. Smith '15, University scholarship to R. J. White '15. Sireno Carl Weist, And., of Gloucester, Harold Linson Stratton And., of Yankton, S. Dakota and Lewis Welton Sanford Dv., of Passumpsic, Vt., were awarded the Billings prize for improvement in pulpit delivery. The resignations of H. L. Gray '98 as Assistant Profesor of History and Tutor in the Division of History, Government, and Economics, of B. E. G. Dirks, from a University scholarship...