Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...five years has been 2.68. It will be seen by these figures that the averages of the crew and nine fall below that of the non-athletic men, while those of the football men and track athletes rise above it. Both athlete and non-athletes show a gain in scholarship during the second decade...
...Williams Weekly says that the grade of scholarship has fallen so low in the sophomore class as to provoke from the faculty "comment and an investigation, which revealed a state of affairs that might well discourage any body of professors...
...Association of Collegiate Alumnae, together with the Western Association of the same character, has established a scholarship for the purpose of allowing some alumna of one of the colleges connected with the association the privileges of a year's study of the higher branches either in this country or in Europe. The scholarship will amount to $500 yearly and subscriptions have already come in quite liberally...
...venture to assert that later in the course the society men fall and the grinds and the semi-grinds rise in the estimation of the college world. The writer also forgets the existence of several popular senior and junior societies, membership in which demands either literary work or high scholarship...
...class of '90 at Yale have distinguished themselves by receiving the greatest number of appointments for good scholarship of any class on record. The class of '84 formerly headed the list with ninety-eight names, but '90 has surpassed this number by six. The names of athletic men are conspicuously absent, while there are several society men honored, including four members of the promenade committee. Philosophicals have been assigned to only five men, an unusually small number. The remaining ninety-nine are about equally divided, fifteen receiving high orations, thirteen orations, thirteen dissertations, fifteen first deputies, sixteen second deputies, twelve...