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Anderson Chenault Dearing, Jr. '34, of Louisville, Kentucky, is the winner of the Edwards Whitaker Prize Scholarship for 1931, one of the most important scholastic awards made at the mid-year examinations.
The prize, which is open only to Freshmen, was established by Mrs. Samuel Craft Davis, in memory of her futher. It is awarded to the Freshman, preferably from west of the Mississippi river, who shows the most outstanding scholastic ability and intellectual promise, as indicated by distinction in studies and...
As the University is constantly requiring that the student spend an increasing amount of time on his work, in order to meet the higher scholastic standards, the opportunity for extra-curricular activity will inevitably be further limited. Athletics, essentially secondary in importance, must conform to the trend and the proposal...
A strengthening of the Freshman advisory system would go a long way toward the accomplishment of this purpose. At present many advisers are professors otherwise engaged, chiefly interested in advanced scholastic work, and unable to give their advisees sufficient time. They are often men unconnected in any way with Freshman...
Universities are created to educate. But few universities can afford to be too particular about their standards of education until they have expanded to profitable size. For this purpose they must establish a reputation and popularity among young people; no better means exists than to have successful, famed football teams...