Word: aid
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Dean about his circumstances, I see no way of action but that the Dean take him to task. That is to say, I think that the college authorities should institute a committee on scholarships, which should judge whether a man's evident style of living entitles him to pecuniary aid or not; such a committee, I admit, would have odious duties, but a crying evil would be remedied to a great extent, at least...
...assignments be made on a general list of all four classes ranked in together. Then an inferior man would no longer be screened by the inferiority of his classmates. Special assignments are, on the whole, unjust; every needy man in college can work hard enough to be entitled to aid, and because a man who won't work hard, happens to be the grandson of a member of an old class, or a distant relative of a founder of a fund, he is not by that any more worthy of help...
Next year, I suppose, there will be more scholarships assigned than heretofore; but that does not alter the necessity of extreme care in their distribution. Pecuniary aid is intended for "meritorious students in needy circumstances"; let the man who keeps expensive apartments or spends money freely on clubs, sports, etc., ask himself conscientiously if he deserves such aid, when some of his classmates whose records entitle them to it, have to scrape along on a sum perhaps half as large as that he spends...
...have not attained this intellectual height (the "ignoble vulgar" as it were), they altogether for, get that we should like to hear the instructor's words, even though we lose the pleasure and profit of our friends' conversation. Let them not scorn us but pity us and aid us to reach their intellectual eminence...
...discovered, and branded with the contempt that he deserves. Who is this person that pretends to know the needs and means of the first twenty-five scholars in the present senior class and can pick out eight of these men as being able to get along well without aid from the college funds? Let us trust that this omniscient writer himself is not one of these unfortunate high rank men who "almost invariably shun very valuable courses"! This would-be critic is at present unknown, but it is a pity that there should be even one man among...