Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Edwin Anderson Alderman, President of the University of Virginia; we rejoice to greet him here for his devotion to sound scholarship, for his genial Southern sympathy, and as head of a seat of learning to which the country owes much, and under his guidance will owe more...
...with methods of thought, an ability to use information, rather than a memory stocked with facts, however valuable such a storehouse may be. In his farewell address to the alumni of Dartmouth President Tucker remarked that "the college is in the educational system to represent the spirit of amateur scholarship. College students are amateurs, not professionals." Or, as President Hadley is fond of putting it, "The ideal college education seems to me to be one where a student learns things that the is not going to use in after life, by methods that he is going to use. The former...
...complete the Oxford course for a quarter of a century. At New College he played on the football team and rowed on one of the college crews. In the fall of 1906 he entered Harvard, finishing the work for his degree in one year, and gaining an honorary scholarship. In the autumn of his Sophomore year he went out for the CRIMSON, became an editor, the next year managing editor, and last spring was elected president of the Board. During his Junior year he studied in the Law School, and was this year to have been one of the advisers...
...does seem that reports and conference papers are crowded on us in too great profusion. The result is a tendency to turn out superficial and hasty work, and in some cases to resort to unfair means. If there could be some reduction of the amount, the standard of scholarship could be kept just as high, and an undesirable temptation would be removed...
...examination for the Ricardo Prize Scholarship will be held in University 23 this morning at 9 o'clock. Each contestant will be called upon to write in the examination room, and essay on a topic chosen by himself, from a list not previously announced, in economics and political science. The award will be made before June...