Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...youth who gave the name of Robert McGinnis, is circulating through Cambridge, taking subscriptions for periodicals in order (as he asserts), to help him in a "Yale scholarship contest." He gave as a reference "Captain Sullivan of the second precinct," but there is no Captain Sullivan in the second precinct or any other precinct of Cambridge. He also asserted that he came from the Georgetown Preparatory School, but the authorities of that school report that they have never had any such student. One "R.M. Green," whose personal appearance strikingly resembles that of Bob McGinnis, has recently been operating in Northampton...
Committee on Scholarship.--William Cheney Brown. Jr., '14 of Hartford, Conn.; Pitman Benjamin Potter '14 of Long Branch, N. J. (chairman) Olin Glenn Saxon '14 of Garden City, L.L.; Webster Godman Simon '14 of Cincinnati, O.; Roscoe Lambert West '14 of Millis...
...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 courses taken and the student's progress throughout his college career have also received due consideration. The names are arranged alphabetically and not according to order of election...
...Massachusetts still prefer the old plan. The use of the old plan by public schools is confined to Massachusetts, quite naturally. That is, the new plan of admission is accomplishing its purpose of bringing Harvard within reach of public schools outside of Massachusetts. Whether the standard of scholarship in the College will be altered remains to be seen. The present Junior class, first to enter under the double plan, has shown no tendency to fall off, but has so far set a high standard. We should like to know to what an extent this is due to the publicly prepared...
...Creative scholarship more than anything else has given Harvard its distinction among the universities of America. Anything that can further that reputation for advancing knowledge will enhance the University's prestige in the most direct manner possible. The contribution which the Harvard Press makes to this end can hardly be overestimated...