Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...holder of a scholarship or other form of beneficiary aid is required by the rules to sign a receipt at the Bursar's Office for each payment made. By applying at the Bursar's Office at the beginning of the academic year and signing a receipt, the holder of such aid may receive an advance on the stipend there of, which will be credited to him in payment of his tuition...
Early in the spring the CRIMSON considered at some length the question of encouraging sentiment for scholarship at Harvard. Among its recommendations at the time was one that Phi Beta Kappa elect men entirely according to their records at the College Office...
...Beta Kappa is the organization which above all others in the University stands for the furtherance of scholarship, and as such it is responsible to a great measure for the place of scholarship in undergraduate opinion. At present it is not fulfilling its responsibility as it should...
What that position should be is open to argument. We believe that its real position at present is the right one. It should elect men on a competitive standard of scholarship, official records--faulty as they are--being in the long run the best tests of scholarship. The thirty-five highest-stand men of a class, say, should be automatically elected with possibly five more after the announcement of prizes and degrees at the end of the Senior year. If the eight to thirty-five men to whom the responsibility of perpetuating Phi Beta Kappa is yearly entrusted were omniscient...
...valuable organization at present. It is a question of whether Phi Beta Kappa may not be more valuable--a question for the members present and past who are dealing not with their own likes and dislikes but with the possibility of ultimate service to the cause of scholarship, to consider. On this day, set apart distinctly for Phi Beta Kappa, it deserves praise for what it has done, rather than criticism and a suggestion of what it might do. Perhaps, however, as John Milton said of the Long Parliament in his "Areopagitica" the highest praise is the praise that this...