Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Student Council at its last meeting passed the following recommendation to the Athletic Committee: "The Student Council, believing that it is the general opinion of the undergraduates that the two-season rule, now in force, is of no benefit either to athletics or to scholarship, hereby recommend to the Athletic Committee that this rule be abolished." The rule in question prohibits an undergraduate member of the University from representing the University on athletic teams in more than two seasons during the academic year...
...habit of proper exercise is not as general as it ought to be. We are too much in the habit of thinking that it takes a specialist to enter athletics. This is not so. "You have heard me say that I want to bring about a higher standard of scholarship at Harvard; I want to raise the standard of athletics as well as scholarship." For this reason dormitory rowing ought to be developed, because it encourages general exercise and this will ultimately help our University crew. "We want to pour out into the world men who are all-around...
Before entering upon the main part of his address, Professor Meyer sketched the growth of scholarship in America, especially at Harvard, from the German standpoint. From a comparatively minor position in scholastic rank one hundred years ago, Harvard has risen to the first place among American institutions and to one of the highest positions among the world's greatest universities...
...qualifying examinations for the Rhodes scholarship will be held in room 207, Administration Building, Harvard Medical School, on October 19 and 20, 1909. The final award will probably be made in January, 1910, on the basis of these examinations, and the successful candidate will matriculate at the University of Oxford in October of the same year...
...behalf of Harvard University I want to thank you, Sir, and the other Delegates from Foreign Universities, for the honor you have done us by coming here. The ties of a common scholarship should be among the closest that bind together mankind, for they, know not time, place or nationality. The bond is universal and eternal. Men eminent by your achievements in literature, in history, in law and in science, bring us greetings from the older world of learning, and from our neighbors North and South, which we shall ever remember with pleasure and with pride...