Word: higher
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Nation of February 20, in its customary tone of ignorant ridicule, throws cold water on the scheme, and severely criticises the author of the article in Scribner. The writer in the Nation grants that "liberally endowed and carefully administered scholarships are among the most efficient attainable means of higher education in our land," but thinks there would be great practical difficulty in finding an organization to properly administer this particular trust. We see no reason for apprehending such a difficulty. Few of the hundreds of scholarships already established in our colleges, few of the many charitable institutions throughout the land...
...graduate from their respective colleges and become teachers, perhaps professors, or professional men. They are successful, often famous, in their several departments; but it can never be said of any one of them whether, under a different kind of undergraduate discipline, his mental faculties might not have received a higher cultivation, thus rendering him capable of greater advancement in after life. The Intercollegiate Scholarship will not be a sure test. It will not follow that the system of the college sending the winning candidate in any particular year is all right, and that the others are all wrong...
...truth is recognized, and the mistakes of the past are avoided. Not alone to the writer is the freedom of criticism allowed here valuable, to the reader also such an exercise is beneficial. Even those who never write demand, as a consequence of their practice in this criticism, a higher style of excellence in books and magazines and papers. Not suddenly, of course, do they come to look upon what is mediocre with loathing; but because the process is slow it is none the less sure...
...will be understood that the collection makes no moneyed profit from any of these sales. Its object is simply to foster the growing taste in the community for the higher forms of Art. Beauty cannot be known till seen; till the mind, indeed, is brought into somewhat familiar contact with it. By making beautiful objects easily accessible, the College may hope that its students will soon prefer these to the inane works which now decorate too many of their rooms. The keen interest which many of you are already showing is, I assure you, a source of sincere satisfaction...
...learn that the Kirkland Fellowship at present amounts to about $6,300. It will be remembered that this Fellowship is being established by George Bancroft, who will pay $2,000 a year till the sum of $10,000 is reached, when the income will be devoted to the higher education of some student taken at the discretion of the Corporation from any department of the University. The student thus selected will be allowed to pursue his studies either in this country or in Europe...