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...opinion on this subject. As to President Eliot's reply to "T. W. H." being conclusive, we were not aware that there could be two opinions, but it seems that there can. Every one whom we have met, on the other hand, thought that the two letters in the Nation of March 13 were conclusive against the President. The writer of this article boldly claims that the present scholarships are not charities. If it can be shown that they are not, there is nothing more to be said; but it is so plain that they are that even President Eliot...
...scholarship question was ably handled, and, as a practical question interesting to our University, conclusively settled by President Eliot in his reply to "T. W. H." in the Nation of March 6th. Yet one idea has protruded itself in the discussion of this question whose influence seems to me most pernicious: I refer to the idea that these scholarships are charities and their acquisition a cause of humiliation. This notion was pressed by "T. W. H.," but I should have considered it unworthy of notice had not an editorial in the last Crimson and an article in the last Advocate...
...another column will be found the last of three articles by a graduate on the subject of scholarships, in which he has favored a system of open scholarships. Since we received this third article a long letter from Mr. T. W. Higginson has appeared in the New York Nation, in which he takes the same ground. The arguments have been well stated, and it only remains for us to express our agreement with the views of these writers. They have certainly supported the side of the case which is taken by the great majority of undergraduates; in fact, we have...
...being conservative snobs, that they come over here and copy these very snobs in loud clothes and detestable habits? Naturally enough, they don't take our nicest people for models; just as we who may not know any first class Parisians, form our opinions of the French nation from what we see of "cabbies" and shop-girls. You see I am trying not to be prejudiced either against you Yankees or for us. I send by this post some Oxford newspapers that may interest you, and remain...
Weeklies. - Nation, Harper's, Leslie's, Punch, London Times and Graphic, Living Age, Scientific American, Forest and Stream, Woman's Journal, Independent, Congregationalist, Universalist, Watchman, Zion's Herald, Messiah's Herald, Missionary Magazine and Herald. Sunday editions of Boston Herald, New York Herald and World, Chicago Times...