Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Juniors are eligible to the Yale Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa Society if they attain a standing of 3.15 on a scale of four in scholarship for the first two and a half-year's of their course...
...signed by some of the most distinguished educators of the English universities and schools; all of the signatures covered fourteen pages of the review. The protest asserts that the examination has lost its true function as the servant of education; that under the competitive system the ideal conception of scholarship has so degenerated that the examination is of more importance by the student than education...
...prone to believe that athletics have a deteriorating influence on the scholarship of the men who engage in them, will have his doubts dispelled by reading carefully the statistics published in this morning's CRIMSON of the rank obtained by those who have played on university and class teams during the years 1885-86 and 1886-87. These statistics were compiled with the greatest of care by the athletic committee, and are therefore as accurate and trustworthy as any statistics on such a subject can be. In nearly every case the standing of students on the university crew, nine, eleven...
...view of the discussion now going on over the relation of athletics to scholarship among college students, some facts collected from the recent report of the committee on athletics to the faculty of Harvard may be of interest. The thorough investigation of the committee leaves no room for doubt that athletics have had a beneficial effect upon the scholarship of men here. From the first table in the report which shows the college rank of the university teams in 1885-86, it appears that the average percentage of the four college teams was 72. That of the crew...
These figures demonstrate beyond a doubt that participation in athletics does not lower the standing of those engaged (except freshmen). "That the scholarship of the college has not seriously suffered from the growth of athletics is further demonstrated by the steady rise in the average standing of the graduating classes during the past eleven years; while new sports have been added, and the number of participants has largely increased, the average standing has risen from 67 1-2 per cent. to 73 per cent...