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Dates: during 1870-1879
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IT is merely a truism to assert that any charitable mechanism, when it gets well to work, is sure to furnish results that were little anticipated. A system of eleemosynary scholarships, advertised as a conspicuous part of a college scheme, will form no exception to this proposition. A class of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCHOLARSHIPS. | 3/7/1879 | See Source »

There is a feeling not uncommon among boys leaving our higher schools, and often shared by their parents, that Harvard is a good enough college for the rich or for the poor; but that those who can make no profession of belonging to either of these classes may as well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCHOLARSHIPS. | 3/7/1879 | See Source »

The good effect of the Bowdoin and Boylston prizes is established beyond dispute, and nobody could be found to propose that a certificate of indigence be hereafter required from competitors. Yet, if it is wise to award a hundred dollars to a successful essayist without asking questions or requiring awkward...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCHOLARSHIPS. | 3/7/1879 | See Source »

DURING the fortnight which has elapsed since the first part of this letter was written, I have learned that Columbia intends to enter an eight and a four, not only in the Metropolitan Association Regatta of Friday, July 4, but also in the N. A. A. O. regatta of a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PROJECTED "AMERICAN HENLEY." | 3/7/1879 | See Source »

Within the last fortnight, also, I have learned with regret that the Harvard and Columbia Freshmen have agreed to row an eight-oared three-mile race "at New London," though the date thereof has not yet been decided upon, and that the challenge for this was sent before the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PROJECTED "AMERICAN HENLEY." | 3/7/1879 | See Source »

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