Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...subject by themselves, who would eagerly embrace the opportunity of pursuing such a course were it offered to them; and it seems, though this would require the proof which experiment only can give, as if such a course would, together with the entrance examinations, raise the standard of scholarship in the Law School. Many men on graduation enter the Law School, forming a fair proportion of the class there. If this course could answer as a preparation for the work done in the Law School, it would be very generally taken by those expecting to enter the School, and even...
RUSSELL STURGIS, of Baring Brothers, of London, has subscribed fifty dollars to the fund for the Art Club Scholarship...
SUBSCRIPTIONS for the fund to support the Art Club Scholarship have been received from the following gentlemen: President Eliot, $50; Prof. Norton, $50; H. W. Longfellow, $50; J. R. Lowell, $50; C. E. Ware, $50; Edward Page, $50; G. B. Chase, $50. Total, $350. Annual subscriptions, Prof. Norton...
...recitations is most ingeniously and elaborately discussed, every possible variety of statistics being given. The result is summed up by saying that the average number of absences was two or three times as great as under the old system, though the influence of the change upon the average scholarship of the class was imperceptible either for good or evil. Those who obtained more than seventy-five per cent for the year's work averaged about two absences a week, and it is suggested that all who exceed that limit should be warned, and forfeit their privileges for a continued excess...
...amount subscribed for the Scholarship Fund shall be paid over, from time to time, to the Treasurer of the College, to be held by him under conditions similar to those of other foundations for Scholarships...