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...interesting relationship is discoverable between the announcement of the Guggenheim scholarships, the speech of Mr. Young on the establishment of the Walter Hines Page School and Dr. Goodnow's discussion of the possibility that Johns Hopkins University may abandon its undergraduate degree and devote itself to graduate and research work alone...
...students, and they were a picturesque reflection of the nineteenth century's belief in political and social salvation through mass schooling and the dissemination of knowledge. But while the dissemination of knowledge has done a great deal it has not done all that was hoped for it. The Guggenheim scholarships are designed not for the students but for the study they may do, and they reflect the awakening suspicion that it is not the dissemination but the getting of knowledge that demands our attention...
...Simon Guggenheim, financier and onetime (1907-1913) U. S. Senator from Colorado, last week gave $3,000,000 to establish a scholarship fund. The money, which Mr. Guggenheim referred to as "a preliminary gift", will provide from 40 to 50 fellowships to "both men and women of proved ability", giving them facilities for research and graduate work "anywhere in the world where they can work most profitably. This plan is broader than the famed Foundation,* organized 21 years ago by Cecil Rhodes (TIME, DEC. 22). It recognizes no age limit,† no restriction of subjects for research, specifying only that...
...Said Mr. Guggenheim...
...Rhodes stipend is approximately $1,675; the Guggenheim...