Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Rhodes Scholarships of three hundred pounds per annum have again been offered to American students for a period of residence of three years, 1913-1916 at Oxford University. The requirements state that candidates must be American born, unmarried, and between the ages of nineteen and twenty-five. The scholastic requirements may be had in full by application to the "chairman of the Committee of Selection for the Rhodes Scholarship," 5 University Hall...
...college is experiencing one of those depressions that come some time to all institutions, or it may be that the curriculum controversy has had its effect. Amherst's incoming class is small, but the college authorities declare that it is exceptionally well prepared, indicating that higher standards of scholarship will soon prevail. Many of the colleges have had important additions to material equipment during the summer, and all signs point to a successful year for New England...
...probation because they have failed to pass an oral examination in French or German. The question very naturally arises as to the reason for the precedent of inflicting probation merely for failure to pass in one particular requirement. Formerly probation has always meant deficiency in scholarship. According to the University regulations a student is place on probation if he has failed of promotion because he has not passed in a sufficient number of courses during the year. In other words, probation has formerly been inflicted for general negligence, as a means of compelling a student to devote more time...
...seems unwise to subject a man to the stigma of probation even though he may stand high in scholarship, merely because he has not passed an oral examination in a particular language. The case would be exactly analogous to that of inflicting probation for failure to pass in the prescribed Freshman English, French, or German, if that were the rule, which fortunately it is not. If probation comes to be the uniform penalty for failure in some particular course, will it not lose all its weight in the minds of the undergraduates...
Furthermore, is it altogether fair to subject a man who otherwise stands creditably in his studies to the severe penalty of probation and all that goes with it, because he does not pass a particular examination within a stated time? The confidence might easily be realized of a scholarship man being on probation, and there is serious doubt in our mind whether a scholarship man, by the definition of the term, can be "on probation...