Word: equally
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Another thing: I think there is injustice done in the present mode of awarding scholarships to each class separately, the average of scholarships being different in the various classes, men of equal ability and equally good records are treated differently. The one who happens to be in a dull class gets perhaps $200, while the other, whose class is superior, gets left. This was particularly noticeable in the last assignment; a man with 84 per cent. in the sophomore class got a Shattuck scholarship, while men with 87 per cent. in the junior class failed to get anything...
...known to be a Boston lady of high position, no less eminent for her generous support of works of practical benevolence, than for her classical scholarship. The present writer does not hesitate to pronounce the translation of the Georgias in the present volume to be fully equal in scholarly rendering to its predecessors. It will, we venture to predict, be no less welcome to Harvard students of Plato, than to many who desire to understand Plato's philosophy, but have not acquired Plato's language. To all such readers we heartily recommend this volume as most trustworthy and satisfactory...
...clearly appear on their books of account. The said trust fund, thus held and invested, is to be called and known as the 'Price Greenleaf Fund.' The net income derived from said fund is to be used, appropriated and applied by said president and fellows as follows: A sum equal to, but not exceeding $3.000 a year, shall be divided into shares of $300 each, and each of said shares shall be paid in each year to an undergraduate, who by reason of insufficient means, shall be unable to pay the expenses necessarily incurred in pursuing his studies...
...Instead of the wishes set forth and declared in the said ninth clause, the testator directs that all of said income which shall remain after the payment of the sum of $3000 for the maintenance and support of the 10 scholarships, shall be divided into two equal parts, one of which parts shall be applied to the maintenance and support of the library of said college by the purchase of books, the preservation and repair thereof, etc., and in all other respects this half of said residue to be subject to the like restrictions and conditions set forth...
...will of Ezekiel Price Greenleaf was filed yesterday. By it Mr. Greenleaf's entire estate of $500,000 is bequeathed to the President and Fellows of Harvard College. $3,000 are to be devoted to ten scholarships of $300 each, and the remainder is to be devoted in equal shares to the library and general running expenses of the colleges...