SCHOLARSHIP BY SCHOOLS

In any consideration of the schools which send men regularly to the University, several New England institutions stand out as a more or less isolated group. For purposes of classification the CRIMSON has selected the following seven as typical of this class: Groton, Middlesex, Milton, Pomfret, St. George's, St. Mark's, St. Paul's.

In another column is published this morning a list of first and second group scholars, numbering in all 178, of whom seven prepared for college at schools in the above list. If it is assumed that each of the institutions enumerated sends ten men a year to Harvard, then their graduates number but one scholar to every 30 men. This is a meagre proportion of high-rank students, when it is considered that about one-tenth of all the upperclassmen are annually awarded scholarships.

In any discussion of academic rank, however, the questions of outside interests and standards of success must be considered. The goal for which the men from public schools try is largely high marks and mental training, and to this end they tend to sacrifice athletics and social diversions in general. On the other hand, the boarding-school graduate measures his success as an undergraduate by the prominence which he attains in fields of activity which are not purely scholastic. Consequently men of this group play the greater part in the broadening "outside interests"; and naturally enough do not or cannot devote as much time to their courses as those who strive primarily for academic honors. Both undergraduate elements evince the same fundamental purpose, namely--to "make good," but because of differing standards the means employed and ends sought are widely divergent.