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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...spite of the recent large increase in scholarship funds, increased fees would bar out students of small means, could not the difficulty be met by creating a number of University scholarships of fifty dollars each, or to put it in another way, the faculty could be authorized to remit fifty dollars of the fee for tuition to a certain number of students...
...Senior and Freshman teams who won the debates last fall will be presented with cups by the University Debating Club. At the same meeting gold medals will also be given to the winners of the recent Princeton debate. To the three sets of winners in the spring debates small cups appropriately designed will be given...
...gift of Captain J. Boardman '94, who is at present serving in the Philippines, consists of a small collection of Filipino publications and documents. The most important is a complete file of the "Revolucion," the official organ of the government in the province of Bisayas, from December 1898 to February 1899. In the later numbers is printed officially the greater part of the constitution of the Philippine government. Among the miscellaneous papers sent by Captain Boardman are two manifestos by the president of the Council of Government, printed for distribution and dated March 20 and April 15, 1899. They accurately...
Another reason, according to Professor Ashley, "is that the scholarships are of too small amounts; that there are far too few of four hundred dollars and far too many of one hundred and fifty or less." In Oxford a "scholar" gets his scholarship by examination before he enters the university and then holds it throughout his university career. The result is not only to make the scholarships more desirable, but to affect the schools which, in England, instead of "preparing men to satisfy the 'entrance requirements'", fit them to try for scholarships. So Professor Ashley ends by saying...
...Bell has rung from the belfry of Harvard Hall. Even if considerations of historic value and association go for naught, the mere fact of its long and faithful service should give it some claim upon the sentiment of the University. For the Corporation to sell it for the small sum which the weight of its metal would bring, would be to say the least, a sordid act. But even if the Old Bell means to the Corporation only the opportunity to make a hundred dollars, I am sure that it has for the students a value which...