Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting of the trustees of Boston University, the 25th, it was unanimously voted to establish in the academic department, or college of liberal arts, sixty-four free scholarships for the benefit of deserving and needy students. These will be divided equally between the sexes. They will be administered by the faculty according to regulations now in process of preparation. In grateful commemoration of the munificent legacy of Mr. Rich, which amounts to nearly $1,000,000, these new foundations will be perpetually known as "the Isaac Rich scholarship...
Rodney Wallace of Fitchburg, Mass., has given to Smith College a $5,000 scholarship to help indigent students. He has also contributed $2,000 to aid in building a music hall, and $2,000 for the art collection of the new art gallery. The gift of $5,000 is to be a nucleus for a fund of $50,000, which the college officers will endeavor to establish for the assistance of those students who need help...
...came from an upper-class man, a very natural one, as well, since there is a strong tendency in men, when they have once passed the boundary, to forget that they ever were freshmen. The class of '85, it seems, is remarkable in more than one respect. Its scholarship is said to be above the average; its dignity appears to be likewise high, and its support of athletics is below the average. Doubtless the first trait is an estimable one, and as to the others, one can certainly be quoted discreditable, but the other, in my opinion, is somewhat doubtful...
...general impression prevails, from the results of the December examinations, that the class of '85 promises to be above the average in scholarship...
...goes beyond these narrow limits. We believe that this splendid preparation that has been made by our young friend for usefulness here is equally a splendid preparation for usefulness in that larger world to which he has gone. The literary and scholastic training that resulted in such superb scholarship was, after all, but the scaffold by the help of which he was to lay the walls of a brilliant and successful life. It had developed his mind, strengthened his intellect, given capacity and grasp and method and direction to his mental action. Does all this give a pledge for usefulness...