Word: aides
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Professor Ashley points out the lamentable "lack of position" of the Harvard scholar and gives what he thinks are two reasons for it. The chief of these is the restriction of candidates to those who, in the language of the catalogue, are "in indigent circumstances" and "in need of aid,"--a restriction which brings it about that the scholarship at Harvard is not, as at Oxford, prevented "from being associated with poverty, or with the defective breeding which unfortunately poverty too often brings with...
...university career. The result is not only to make the scholarships more desirable, but to affect the schools which, in England, instead of "preparing men to satisfy the 'entrance requirements'", fit them to try for scholarships. So Professor Ashley ends by saying: "If the grants of Price Greenleaf Aid were raised in amount and lessened in number; if pains were taken to make them known in every part of the country; and examinations were held in every state of the Union; it is at any rate possible that the competition would be more keen and fruitful than at present. Examination...
From 1643 to 1800 the College received about forty bequests for the aid of poor and deserving scholars, having an income of from $50 to $300 each. Up to this time the accounts of the College had been kept in a single entry and annual assignments were made of the specific incomes of the several scholarships. Just before the close of the eighteenth century the system of double entry book-keeping was adopted, and the existing bequests of which the Treasurer had any knowledge were bunched in a single account termed the "Exhibition Account." The records of some...
...addition to the scholarships, fellowships for the aid of students in the Graduate School are annually offered by the University to the number of thirty, having annual incomes varying from...
...fold, is philanthropic rather than religious. A man is given a family to look after by the Associated Charities of Boston, and it is his duty to help it in any way he can, and to make occasional reports. The Home Libraries, which are connected with the Children's Aid Society, are distributed in batches of twenty books throughout the tenement districts, for the use of children. It is the duty of the man who undertakes this work to meet the children in his group once a week, and to comment on their reading. The work upon which the most...