Word: aid
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Last day for receiving from persons intending to enter College applications for Price Greenleaf Aid...
...TUESDAY.Last day for receiving from persons intending to enter College applications for Price Greenleaf Aid...
Given in this spirit, the money becomes a trust to be treated with the closest consideration of the purposes for which it was given. The money is meant not as prizes for good college work, but as aids to the education of college men. To make the allotment of the money depedent so largely as it now is upon the rank of students in college work is to mistake means for end. The college career is not to be considered except in so far as it foreshadows future usefulness. Plainly college work is not ultimate, but only preparatory...
...just pass this law for us." With such a state of things, is there not need of patriotism? And if there is need of intelligent men who will sacrifice themselves for their country, it is to the coming generation that we must look for help. It is to aid in this cause that we are getting an education. College training is not for making men better able to make money than their fellows, or to teach them to be sharp enough to outwit those less fortunate than themselves, but it is to make men broader, nobler and stronger, morally...
...both in Greek and Latin, could be produced with profit. Greek and Latin, if they are to hold their own under present educational conditions, must be presented, not simply as fit tools for mental exercise, but as worthy of study for themselves,- as the introduction to other civilizations. To aid in this new method, no more valuable a means could well be found than the presentation of one of the best pieces of the classical drama...