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...interesting to note the change of the official name to Radcliffe College. Investigations which have recently been made, revealed the fact that the first woman who ever gave money to Harvard was, by her maiden name, Anne Radcliffe. Her bequest of L100 was made in the year 1640; and it seemed desirable to Mrs. Agassiz, the president of the present society, that a college for the education of women should remember, in the days of its prosperity, the first woman who showed an active interest in educational institutions...
...incomes of Oxford fellowships' very from L125, the average being about L100. The total annual income of the university is about L250,000; more than any other university in the world receives, and of this large sum more than one-third is expended in fellowships every year. Cambridge, being a smaller university, cannot make so large an appropriation, but is very generous...
...average cost of a boy at Eton is estimated to be from L180 to L220; at Harrow, from L135 to L180; at Winchester, L115; at Rugby, L112; at Charter House, L110, and at Marlborough L110 to L100. The cost at Eton is therefore obviously excessive, and it is questioned whether any one connoted with it could give a good reason for this...
...income of the University of Cambridge is L231,265, and at Oxford it is at least L100,000 more...
...youth of no low order of scholarship as a long series of papers in my possession prove. But two or three (as the funds afford) are awarded annually to pupils of Westminister School in the way stated above. There are also at Trinity College sixteen sizarships, worth L100 sterling a year, open to all on like conditions of age and of a severe three day's examination...