Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...total of 57 scholarships has been announced by the Committee on Scholarships and other Financial Aids for the academic year 1919-20. Of this number 53 are from the Price Greenleaf Fund, the remaining four being those awarded through the Samuel C. Cobb Tuition Fund. The assignments were based in each case on strong evidence of the candidate's character and scholarship, furnished by the school from which he came. A second assignment will be made in February, 1920, on the basis of the grades received by applicants at the mid-year examinations. This list includes only Freshmen and unclassified...
Hitherto, American Rhodes scholars were not a great success at Oxford. They failed to mix with the English, and seldom won the higher honors in scholarship...
Fifteen candidates from the College have been entered and recommended for the Rhodes Scholarship competition which is to be held about Nov. 1. The entrants are: E. B. Brady '21, C. Brinton '19, C. W. Carter, Jr., '20, C. B. Fuller '19, E. Griffin '16, R. L. Humber 2G., J. R. Laver '20, a. S. Potter '17, F. V. Scholes '19, W. A. Shiner '18, A. N. Small '16, N. C. Starr '17, H. B. Van Fleet '20, D. V. Widder '20, C. G. Youngblatt...
...Rhodes scholarships which were postponed for the duration of the war, have been resumed this fall. The Rhodes will provides that two scholars shall be studying constantly at Oxford from each state in the Union. Each scholar stays three years and receives a stipend of $1500 a year, out of which he pays his tuition, fees and other expenses like any other student. Tow scholarships being assigned to a state, and each scholarship being tenable for three years, there is one year out of every three in which no election takes place...
...selection of the successful candidates from each state will be made by a committee constituted for that purpose. The choice is made on the basis of a man's record in college according to the four points outlined in the Rhodes will: (1) scholarship, (2) character, (3) interest in outdoor sports, (4) interest in one's fellow, and instincts for leadership. Of these qualifications the greatest emphasis is laid upon the first...