Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...graduating class has made an enviable record for itself. Starting in its Freshman year with decisive victories over the Yale freshmen in the four major sports, the class of 1912 has maintained a high standard in athletics. In scholarship and in outside activities it has done exceptionally well. In encouraging the Senior dormitory movement and in building up a splendid Student Council 1912 has been especially prominent. Above all, the class has been one of close communistic life--a class in which unity of feeling and good fellowship has been most evident. The men of 1912 as they leave Harvard...
...order to concentrate in a single festive occasion the recognition by the College of undergraduate scholarship, an innovation has been made this year in the announcement of the names of the winners of academic prizes and distinctions. Hitherto, the names of prize winners have been published as soon as the judges came to a decision as to the successful competitors. This year, however, the names of the various prize winners have been withheld and will be announced on Monday next by President Lowell in a public meeting at Sanders Theatre. Notwithstanding certain minor objections to this plan, it seems...
...recognition of the force of his teaching power and the depth of his scholarship, Princeton University conferred yesterday on Professor George Herbert Palmer the honorary degree of Doctor of Humanities. In presenting the degree to Professor Palmer, Dean West paid a glowing tribute to the scope of his accomplishments and the permanent influence of his work. Professor Palmer, he said, combines the qualities of a great teacher and a powerful thinker; is a literary artist of high distinction and "a philosopher of original sense with a tranquil enthusiasm for truth." Such a tribute to our esteemed professor arouses a sense...
...George Herbert Palmer, professor of philosophy in Harvard University, a teacher who holds his students by scholarship of living power, a clear thinker of calm meditative tone, a student of ethics with a deep grasp on that theistic truth which underlies all righteousness, a literary artist--fit editor of the poems of his spiritual ancestor, George Herbert; his refinement in style, whether in philosophy or literature being no mere fastidiousness, but the reflex of refined thought, a philosopher in the original sense, widely influential for good and imbued with a tranquil enthusiasm for truth which gives substance and worth...
...additional fact which seems to us significant is that more private school students take an active interest in outside college affairs, due largely, no doubt, to the training in this line which they receive at school. This probably accounts for the fact that they do not receive as many scholarship honors as the public school...