Word: inferiors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...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...
...young men to adopt a certain profession. A man who enters a profession with the aid of outside means, and not by the aid of his own native talents and feelings, will not do much to ennoble that profession. Besides, according to Adam Smith, it 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...
...author, as follows: "Two of the disappointed candidates at a recent examination for admission to the bar are men who have already attained eminence at the Indian bar, where the practice is substantially the same as in England, and where the standard of the bar is notoriously but little inferior. One of these gentlemen has for some years had a professional income of pound15,000 per annum, and the other holds a judicial appointment; and yet neither, according to the sapient decision of an examination, could be trusted to conduct a case...
...Astronomical Observatory here," writes a Yale man to the Badger (Wisconsin University), "as is also the Harvard Observatory, which I visited during the holidays, is inferior to the Washburn Observatory...