Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...following three scholarships in the Bussey Institute were awarded: the George H. Emerson Echolarship to Owen Francis Burger 1G.; the Priscilla Clark Hodges Scholarship to Howard Madison Parshley 1G.; the University Scholarship to Jay Boardman Park 2G. The Class of 1908 Sexennial Scholarship was assigned to William Brackett Sow, Jr., '18. Sheldon Fellows were assigned as follows: Carl Alfred Lanning Binger '10, A.B., M.D., in Medicine; William John Crozier 3G., S.B., A.M., in Zoology; Wilbur Garland Foye 4G., A.M., in Geology; James Hinton 4G., A.M., in English; Julius Klein 6G., A.M., Litt.M., in Spanish-American History and Economics; William Mann...
...student I would not wonder. To be sure he is no driver, and if you do make a mistake in German the students laugh. Then I said, "You must let him stay until June." Now he has dropped German and has Prof. Muensterberg. I saw your article on "The Scholarship Service Bureau" and now he has a tutor in Mathematics. Believe me I'll do my best not to have him thrown out in June, but how to prevent it I hardly know, but I urge my son to study hard and do his best. Now cannot you understand very...
...changes were in substance the recommendations as a result of a compromise between President Lowell and the Student Council, represented by a special committee composed of W. H. Trumbull, Jr., '15, president of the Student Council, D. Kimball '15, and C. H. Smith '15, chairman of the committee on scholarship. The purpose of the new regulations is to lessen the liability of men going on probation, and to afford a fairer opportunity than the present oral examination gives. The recommendations as passed by the Faculty read...
...brain is on the athletic field, or somewhere equally remote. He does not know among other things, the power of attention, effective note-taking, and a live intellectual curiosity in the lecture room as a time-saver in outside study. A recent case came before the Phi Beta Kappa scholarship bureau where a man who has won literary prizes failed to escape probation, in spite of studying the incredible amount of fifteen hours a day. A great deal of this is doubtless due to inexcusable apathy on the part of students; much also must be charged to lack of early...
...another column is a communication from the chairman of the Scholarship Committee of the Student Council setting forth the history of the recent efforts to secure an improvement in the administration of the oral examinations. This year, through the committee mentioned, a persistent and intelligent campaign has been carried on. The Student Council has not only been careful and specific in its recommendations, but has approached the subject from the point of view of the scholarly student, not merely from that of the disappointed athlete...