Word: aid
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...there is another circumstance which tends to mitigate the "evil efects" of this system of scholarships - the way in which they are awarded. A man, in order to receive the benefit of such aid, must distinguish himself in his studies, and this can he done only in two ways: either he must have extraordinary natural ability, or he must show himself capable of most diligent application. Now will the HERALD insist that a man possessing these qualities "cannot do much to ennoble his profession?" I say the influence a man shall have on his profession depends on the man himself...
...recent address before the New York Harvard Club, President Eliot remarked that the clerical profession had been "deeply injured by beneficial endowments," and that although this profession had been more generously treated in the way of pecuniary aid than any other, in it is "the greatest dearth of great...
...comes from the president of a university that is noted for the liberality of its scholarship system gives it a new and greater interest. It is generally thought that the best disposal a man could make of his money was to found some scholarships in a college which would aid the poor student and reflect credit upon the profession which the student entered...
...repaid, if possible, after graduation. This might take away part of the sting, but some of the evil effects remain. The system, in fact, is nothing short of offering a prize to young men to adopt a certain profession. A man who enters a profession with the aid of outside means, and not by the aid of his own native talents and feelings, will not do much to ennoble that profession. Besides, according to Adam Smith, it fills the profession with inferior men, who make the competition greater and hence reduce the rewards an able man has the right...
...weed requires a much longer time to heal than a cut in the hand of one who does not. Tobacco acts first as an irritant, then has no effect, and finally as a paralyzing agent upon one just beginning to use it, so that instead of its being an aid to digestion, it really retards it. With the heart it causes that palpitation and tremulousness that is so frequently observed, and is often the cause of vertigo. Its effect upon the optic nerve is to cause dimness of sight, and eventually to weaken the eye and bring on near-sightedness...