Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...going straight to the heart of things, of determining from the student himself what the actual situation is and planning a solution accordingly. It is to be expected he will pursue this policy. His especial interest during the past year, that of effecting the best method of rewarding high scholarship, in which he has done much constructive work, is only one of many such problems in solving which he can lend his experience. Intercollegiate athletics remain in the balance in the minds of some men and during the next ten years it will require an energetic conservatism on the part...
...institution where scholarship has inadequate appreciation by undergraduates and almost no social incentive to encourage it, a society which has high scholarship for its ideal must recognize the importance of including scholars of character and ability along with the highest stand men. Some endeavor must be made to remove the opprobrium from scholarship which is all too prevalent and a continuation of such a policy by the Phi Beta Kappa will be of great assistance...
...Harvard Club of Fall River, whose membership is now over 100, was founded in 1887. Since its organization its members have taken an active interest in University affairs, Milton Reed '68, one of its founders, having established the scholarship which bears his name, and several men having been sent to Harvard through scholarships established in the local schools...
...Slepian '11, Class of 1835L. Smith '11, Benjamin Daniel GreeneC. D. Snow '11, BurrH. L. Somers '11, StoryS. Spring '10, Morey Willard BuckminsterF. S. Spurr '10, Harvard CollegeA. Strauss '09, Harvard CollegeA. C. Strunk '10, Harvard CollegeL. B. Struthers '10, BartlettL. H. Thayer '10, SewallR. S. Thompson '12, Dana Scholarship of the Class of 1852F. W. Tomkins, Jr., '10, MatthewsA. C. Townsend, Jr., '11, Harvard CollegeR. H. Townsend, '09, Harvard CollegeR. S. Tucker '11, Harvard CollegeP. D. Turner '09, Harvard CollegeL. Vold '10, CrowninshieldD. J. Walsh, Jr., '11, BassettM. M. Warren '10, SewallC. A. Whipple '09, KirklandH. L. Wilder...
...best way to make the American people more interested in scholarship than in athletics is by proving that our prize scholars, even more than our prize athletes, represent the type of men for which there is public need. The competitions must be so arranged that the prize winners justify the selection by their subsequent life. But have our prize winners done as much for the public as it has a right to expect? That the men who have won scholastic distinction at Harvard have later won more than their proportionate share of honor in the outside world has been shown...