Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...with the various activities among the graduate students. The incorporation of this department in the Register is very gratifying, for the interest and activities it represents affect quite as many men as the undergraduate sections of the volume. Another pleasing feature of the present volume is the new department, "Scholarship," which has to do with Phi Beta Kappa and other scholarly activities and attainment. With these additions and the enlargement of the old departments, the Register rivals the official catalogue in size and stands as a complete record of all the representative interests in the University. To the Student Council...
...entirely new departments, "Scholarship" and "The Graduate Schools", have been added to the volume. Nearly all the other "Parts" have been largely supplemented, or re-arranged so as to better them and expedite the quest for information. The fourteen departments which comprise the book are entitled: "The Faculty", "Alumni Associations", "Representative Interests", "Scholarship", "Publications", "Religious and Philanthropic Interests", "Registered Clubs", "Preparatory School Clubs", "Social Organizations", "Athletics", "The Graduate Schools", "Directory by Dormitories and Rooms", "Geographical University Directory", "University Directory...
...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 are arranged alphabetically and not according to rank or order of election...
...while addressing an audience of educators, in college the side shows have crowded out the main circus, and the varied undergraduate activities, to be sure both "active and interesting," are attracting the main body of students. The number of men who come to college with the intention of pursuing scholarship as their chief interest from the start of their academic career is lamentably small, for young men realize that at present the activities of the scholar are not attended with band playing or cheering. Almost unnoticed and unknown the man who devotes himself primarily to the cause of scholarship labors...
This is the greatest of undergraduate delusions. In the first place, Harvard University exists now and for all time to disseminate learning and to increase the fund of scholarship. Hence all efforts to raise the standard of scholarship of this University are worthy of the highest praise, for they perpetuate Harvard as an institution of learning and maintain her in her leadership of American universities. So the devotion of any undergraduate to the cause of scholarship does not in itself signify that he is a narrow-minded, parasitic, and incapable being. Furthermore, it is claimed that the undergraduate scholars work...