Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recipient of this scholarship is selected in the middle of the third year by the Dean of the College and the Director of the Athletic Association, but the gift is not made until his fourth year. It is awarded on the basis of scholastic and athletic ability...
...Mardulier '30 of Medford has been awarded the Francis H. Burr Scholarship established in memory of Mr. Burr, who was a member of the Class of 1909, by his friends, it was announced at University Hall this morning. Mardulier is a member of the University track team and one of the highest ranking scholars in the Engineering School...
...stadium overshadows the classroom . . . athletics have a dollar sign in front of them. . . . Scholarship has been pushed aside and dwarfed. . . . Menace to our whole American educational system. . . . Not vague theories ... I have personal knowledge . . . something radically and fundamentally wrong...
Inventor Whittum entered Worcester Polytechnic Institute this fall. Last week he received a curious scholarship of $600 given annually by Henry Jones Fuller, Manhattan banker and Worcester trustee, to that member of the entering class who has shown greatest "Yankee Ingenuity." Should Inventor Whittum win another scholarship in his succeeding years at Worcester, from Trustee Fuller he will receive another...
...responded to the invitation with a critical piece that set a thousand tongues aquiver. In an interview with Frazier Hunt in the current "Cosmopolitan" the Chief Justice returns to his theme. "The emphasis in college life is wrong", he insists. And he proceeds to expatiate on the submergence of scholarship in extra-curricula activities and especially athletics. "The stadium," he says, "overshadows the classroom--athletics have a dollar sign in front of them...