Word: american
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reason for the absence of this system, which has proved so beneficial in England, may be found in the excellence of the universities themselves. It is thought, perhaps, that there is little need for a student to go outside of a German university. In fact, holders of English and American fellowships generally go to a German university to continue their study...
...advantages for post-graduate study offered by American colleges, are very few compared with those presented by English universities. It is to be regretted that such is the case, for the fellowship system in American colleges would be, in the opinion of high authorities in educational matters, a very efficient aid to advanced scholarship and to science. Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, and the Johns Hopkins University, are the principal literary institutions of this country which offer fellowships. Yale has seven fellowships, varying in value from forty-six dollars to six hundred; two are of the larger amount. The prosecution...
Harvard has eleven fellowships of a larger value than most of those in American colleges. Two have an annual income of about six hundred dollars, four of five hundred, and four of eight hundred dollars each. The latter are called "traveling fellowships," and their holders generally prosecute their chosen study in Germany. These fellowships may be held for many years. One of these fellowships was founded in 1871 by George Bancroft, the historian. About 65 years ago Edward Everett suggested to President Kirkland that it would be well to send a young Harvard graduate to Germany to study. President Kirkland...
...Johns Hopkins University of Baltimore heads the list of American colleges, however, in generous provisions for advanced study. This young, but rich and prosperous institution, with an endowment of three and a half millions, provides twenty fellowships, each yielding an annual income of five hundred dollars. They are bestowed upon advanced scholars from any place. The chief condition is that the holder shall have a decided liking for some special department of knowledge, in addition to a liberal education and good character. At the first assignment of fellowships in 1876, there were one hundred and forty-two applicants, representing forty...
...conviction that the students who hold positions on the various athletic teams are wont to make their studies secondary to their work in the field, we feel that so sweeping a statement ought to be carefully analyzed. Let us, for Harvard may fairly be said to represent the American University in its most ideal form, look at the question from a Harvard standpoint. Are our athletes conspicuous for a superabundance of bodily strength gained at the expense of a corresponding loss in mental power? Hardly, we think, and we are borne out in this assertion by the prosaic but convincing...