Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: As the proposed "Elevated Railway" has at present progressed no further than a small petition, and is still one of the blessed things of the hereafter, we think some relief ought to be afforded by the "Cambridge Railroad Company" in regard to the number of cars used late in the evening...
...HERALD says that a scholarship is not received without "a sacrifice of personal independence." If there were no scholarships many a man must restrain that desire - that longing in some fostered even from childhood - to make himself more fully a man; he must remain the subject of adverse circumstances, and if he enter a profession he must enter it handicapped by those to whom fortune has given an education without the "sting" of accepting a scholarship. If the privilege of a scholarship is open to the same man he can, perhaps, get a college education which otherwise he could...
...HERALD'S chief point against scholarships, however, seemed to be their evil effect on the professions economically. Now the great evil in over-crowded professions is the influx to them of poorly educated men. Indeed a profession is over-crowded only in so much as it is filled up with these inferior men. The moment you give these men a higher place in this profession, that moment you ennoble the profession itself. But we have seen that this is just what scholarships help to do. Scholarships are the incomes of funds devoted to the purpose of general education. Economically they...
...last part of its editorial the HERALD has taken a position which borders upon absurdity. It says: "It (meaning aid by scholarships) fills the profession with inferior men, who make the competition greater and hence reduce the rewards an able man has the right to expect for his labor." Wherein the HERALD is justified in distinguishing the non-scholarship man as "able," while stigmatizing the scholarship man as "inferior," I am not able to find...
Wanted - A student from '86 to do canvassing among the members of his class. Send name and address for further particulars to F., care of Herald...