Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...awarding of scholarship distinctions and election to Phi Beta Kappa have often been severely criticized on the ground that there exists no just basis for determining relative rank. Because of the wide variations in the standards of marking on the part of different professors, two pieces of equally good work very often receive varying marks. In certain courses the Rank List will show that about 20 per cent of the members received grade A, whereas in others only 4 or 5 per cent are A men. How, then, are the records of men graded according of different standards...
...applied in such courses as History 1, English A and Government 1; where there are several assistants, each of whom usually has his own standard of grading. But if the new plan is applied in its more general phase to courses open to undergraduates, who are competing for scholarship honors, a more uniform system of grading would be established...
...examination for the Ricardo Prize Scholarship will be held in Upper Dane on Saturday, April 27, at 9 o'clock. This Scholarship, with an income of $350, will be assigned to a student who in 1912-13 will be a member of the Senior class, or of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and will study Economics, with special reference to problems connected with public service industries. Unlike most scholarships, it is administered as a prize: no question of pecuniary need is considered in the assignment...
...examination on which (in part) the Scholarship is assigned is so arranged as to test power, not information, and to call for no preparation. In the examination room, a list of ten or a dozen subjects is given; and each candidate is expected to write, on the spot, an essay on one of these subjects, and on one only. The subjects are selected from the fields of Economics, Government, and Modern History. Any student who has taken advanced courses in these fields will find among the subjects at least one which has been brought to his attention. On the basis...
Mariett entered College from Phillips Exeter Academy and throughout his career was very prominent in college activities. Besides being president of the Monthly and an officer in the Dramatic Club, he was the winner of the Matthews Scholarship for three years and the Bowdoin prize. He was also a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the Student Council and several social clubs...