Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Ricardo Prize Scholarship...
...often felt that the average undergraduate is too easily satisfied with a fair mediocrity in his scholarship. Conveniently above the grade of failure is a very large space which accounts for the mediocre and indifferent work. Undoubtedly there is too much satisfaction in such work, much more than there should be, but it is well proven that there is less content nowadays to be numbered in that category than twenty years ago and there is more eagerness to be classed among the men who have obtained distinction in their academic work...
...meeting in Sanders Theatre tonight is in recognition of those men who have obtained honor stands in their work. It should emphasize the fact that more men are doing scholarship work each year, including men who are interested in other things as well, and that men are realizing more and more the intimate connection between vigorous intellectual effort in College and the attainment of distinction along this and other lines in later years...
...distinction as a teacher rested on his many-sided scholarship; on his power to transmute whatever he taught into terms of a common humanity; and on his eagerness to find moral beauty in all excellence. He loved art and literature, and he had a large faith that both could be made to lend their concurrent influence not only to refinement and delight, but also to dignity of life and to the formation of lofty standards of thought and action. He inculcated the virtue of reverence. He awakened and developed ideals in his pupils, he did not impose them from without...
...Harvard Club of Minnesota has decided to make an annual appropriation from which a scholarship of $250 will be given each year to a member of the Freshman class. It will be assigned by preference to a graduate of the public schools of St. Paul or Minneapolis, but men from other parts of the state will also be eligible. The scholarship will be awarded for the first time in the fall of 1909. This form of gift to the University has been very popular among the alumni clubs since 1906, when the first scholarship was founded by the Harvard Club...