Word: overwork
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Advantages would be gained. Some such moderate standard would ensure, on the one hand, that no one should be given a scholarship who did not have good brain power and, on the other hand, that no should be tempted to overwork this brain power. It would lessen the number of men who bring scholarly ability into disrepute, and increase the chances of this ability being appreciated and prized by college men. It would give money in rational proportions, and it would give all poor men a chance for college...
...pointed out, a day or two ago, the mischief which scholarships play in urging men on to undue work, and the reaction among other men which this overwork causes. The fact that scholarly ability is not more highly regarded here among students is to be regretted, and regretted deeply. The men who work too hard for the scholarships are not to be blamed. They have no choice. They must take the system as they find it. The system is what is wrong...
...straits for the means to his college expenses, there is hardly a limit to the amount of work he feels spurred on to do. If the scholarships never induced men to work themselves beyond reason, well and good. But the fact, patent to every one, is that men do overwork for these scholarships. There is, in our opinion, no small number of men in every class who overwork on their courses, and of this number four men out of five who are competing for scholarships...
...wish to make it clear that we do not assign the scholarships as the sole, but as the chief cause of overwork. This overwork is bad for the men themselves and the college as a whole...
Woodward does not overwork himself and is slow...