Word: scholasticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four Harvard students named Murphy are the recipients this year of the annual scholarships donated in 1916 by William Stanislaus Murphy, A.B. 1885, for the "collegiate education of men of the name of Murphy." The awards this year total $1,850, and go only to students of high scholastic standing...
But it was not in the futile attitude of antiquarianism or ancestor-worship that Harvard staked its claim to the educational limelight. The year brought challenges, many of which have been successfully met and conquered. Taking up the gage of increasing public indifference to education, the college has spread its...
Lieutenant-Governor William Stoughton, Class of 1650, established the foundation, one of Harvard's oldest, in 1701. His scholarships are awarded on the basis of high scholastic achievement to any students in the University but go by preference to men from Dorchester.
Officially confirmed for Yalemen last week by their Alumni Weekly was the well-known fact that 67-year-old President James Rowland Angell, having reached the University's retirement age, will leave his post within the scholastic year. Yale's Corporation, the Alumni Weekly revealed, is already on...
What ruins the present system, however, are the unreasonable and hence unfulfilled claims it inflicts upon the instructors. By requiring them to do the extra work without pay or alleviation of ordinary duties University Hall has succeded, with notable exceptions, in repulsing valuable men already over-busy, and in discouraging...