Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...settlement of annuities upon college graduates to encourage and aid postgraduate study in special branches, is a system first introduced by Oxford and Cambridge. The various colleges of which Oxford is composed, possess about three hundred fellowships, which are held for various lengths of time, some of them for life; but marriage, ecclesiastical advancement, or accession to a certain amount of property, compel the holder to surrender his fellowship. The fellow is elected after a severe competitive examination, and is hampered by very few conditions in the enjoyment of his income, and is at liberty to pursue almost any course...
...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...
...Longfellow Memorial Fund.- Gentlemen: The president and fellows of Harvard College desire me to thank you for your gift of a copy of the bust of Henry Wadsworth longfellow, which has recently been placed, through your agency, in Westminister Abbey. The university welcomes this pledge of the literary fellowship between England and America, which the labors of the poet you have so honorably commemorated did much to promote. The bust has arrived in safety; and will be placed, with an inscription telling whence it came, in the library, among other mementoes of benefactors and eminent graduates of the university...
...representative state clubs? This system has been in successful operation at Yale for some years, and has resulted in the forming of many most enjoyable associations. We have long and earnestly urged its adoption here, but without avail. Can it be that we lack the trait of hearty good-fellowship which forms so prominent a characteristic at other colleges...
Applications for appointment to the Harris Fellowship, which has become unexpectedly vacant will be received by the Dean until...