Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...report called attention to the fact that last year a comparatively large number of students received scholarship help for their first year of graduate work. This was taken as a reflection of "the feeling of many members of the Faculty that now and then a brilliant Senior gives more promise of becoming a productive scholar than many a graduate student who has acquired high grades in more advanced work...
...have had to be made. It is possible to come out for the CRIMSON and held a high scholastic standing. To prove this it is only necessary to cite the case of a man still in college who, after successfully completing eight weeks of competition, was awarded the Whitaker scholarship, given annually to the Freshman "who shows the most outstanding scholastic ability and intellectual promise as indicated by distinction in studies". Another competitor was able to make the board and also become a marshal of Phi Beta Kapa...
First, to satisfy Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia, he ruled that examinees who are applying for freshman scholarships may henceforth take the Scholastic Aptitude Test (established 1926) in April, prior to their regular examinations in June. The advanced date will let applicants know early where they stand, help colleges to allot their scholarship funds wisely...
...presenting his annual report of the state of the college to the president, and through him to the community as a whole, Dean Hanford has directed public gaze to the rising standard of scholarship at Harvard over the past twenty years. For twenty years ago the general divisional examinations were set up as part and parcel of the undergraduate curriculum, substituting for the old course and point plan. Under the stimulus of this comprehensive system, and goaded further by the growth of tutorial work and of the Houses, the number of honors men in the college has doubled, and many...
...purpose of this innovation, which is to be tried as an experiment for at least a two year period, is to enable the scholarship committees of the participating universities to sift and classify their scholarship candidates at an earlier date than has been possible before. This will allow the College to make their decision in May or June, instead of August, and those who miss an award will thus have time to make alternate plans...