Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...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 confessions, it is difficult to see why it would not be well to encourage general scholarship in precisely the same way. In the case of "bread studies," the hope of the solid gain to which they lead makes other stimulus unnecessary. But a college wishing to compete with them in securing young men of the first promise may properly offer some recompense for that exceptional cultivation which...
...great improvement upon the present scheme, but a necessary consequence of the elective system. So long as a prescribed curriculum throughout the college course was adhered to, an average mark may have been regarded as some evidence of conscientious work, more or less reliable as a criterion of scholarship. But under the elective system, which encourages special studies in the course marked out by the student for his career in life, he should receive from the college a proper recognition of his actual standing in those special branches of study, or else the present plan of determining college rank...
...been objected to a general system of eleemosynary scholarships, that, under conditions which are found in America, it is impossible to make a fair selection of those who should be encouraged to compete for them. The reasons which prevent business men from confessing their want of success, in order that their boys may try for scholarships, have already been noted. But, putting parents out of the question, it is clear that any practicable tests between minor applicants must be of the roughest and most uncertain kind. A. B., for example, who is able to show that be has no property...
...forgotten that open scholarships would be fully available for all who are now able to avow necessitous circumstances, provided their work was good enough to gain them. The change would consist simply in completing the halting analogy between a scholarship and "a silver cup won in a boat race," - the winner of this latter "prize" not being forced to remember that a majority of the class (including, perhaps, some of the best oarsmen) were restrained from competing. Scholarships open to all would undoubtedly attract to Harvard men who ought to be here, but who are so situated that they cannot...
...reach the inheritors of wealth it is for the interest of the community to bestow. Moreover, to those who are troubled by difficulties of this description, it may be pointed out that they could be well-nigh avoided by prudent conditions. It might be provided that money accruing from scholarships must be spent for educational purposes approved by some designated officer of the college. Recipients might be required to sign some such paper as the following, devised by the late Mr. Hodges: "Although this beneficence is unconditional, I hereby signify my intention, if I should be pecuniarily prosperous in life...