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...support of two scholarships, having an income of $250 each, to be called the "George Newhall Clark Scholarships," in memory of their son, George Newhall Clark, of the Class of 1908. In accordance with the desire of the founders, these scholarships are to be assigned to Freshmen who stand in need of financial and friendly aid, and who are deemed worthy to receive it. In the assignment, consideration is to be given, first to the student's manliness, truthfulness, courage, honesty, kindliness, loyalty, high purpose and devotion to duty; second, to his scholarly attainments, which must be such...
...statement of the purpose and status of the Union is intended especially for new students. The Union was founded in 1899 by Major Henry Lee Higginson h.'55, and was intended by him to be "a house open to all Harvard men without restriction and in which they all stand equal." It has proved to be not only this but a meeting place for individuals, for organizations of many kinds, for mass meetings and class smokers, an eating-place which alone in Cambridge supplies the need of first-class restaurant fare and adequate provision for University training-tables, a reader...
Turning now to personal life, Dean Fenn said that there were many specific ways in which a man's possessions might stand in the way of his possibilities. Many a man of brilliant parts has made little of himself simply because he was never obliged to put forth all his powers. A man of means frequently fails, just because of that fact, to become a means for the highest ends. Occasionally crises come in which the Christ appears bearing the sword and demanding utter self-renunciation. No one here, almost under the shadow of Memorial Hall, can doubt it. Today...
...various classes of students, under the title of "The Physique of Scholars, Students, and the Average Student," by Dr. Dudley A. Sargent. Dr. Sargent holds that an excessive attention to athletics is an evil not nearly so serious as over-attention to studies on the part of the high-stand men. From statistics of physical examinations he shows that the standard of physique of the athlete and of the average student has risen surprisingly in the 28 years covered by his records, while the scholarship man is considerably below the standard of 1880. The conclusion which he draws from these...
...determined largely by the men who compose it; for an institution which has no directly authorized power from a higher body must find its authority in popular sentiment which must be favorable to it. This feeling will only be favorable when the Council has for members those men who stand out pre-eminently for their personal worth more especially than for their achievements. The committee chosen to prepare the nominations is admirable and they appreciate the importance of the first year of the Council...