Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...several times in this paper. It is exceedingly gratifying to his many friends here thus to hear of his growing popularity through "his gentlemanly manners in the class-room as well as his interest in athletic sports." We also remember that he was not first in his class in scholarship alone, and wish him every success...
...different theological seminaries Harvard men are found taking the highest positions, not merely in point of scholarship, but in everything that makes a man esteemed in such a place...
...conduct of the college and in his own studies. Persons rarely indulge in criticism unless their taste and good judgment are offended; nor do students care a straw how recitations are conducted when they have nothing at stake. True, in many cases grumbling is heard because the standard of scholarship is kept as high as it is, but those who indulge in this are not the ones to write essays for a college paper on the ill-management of the college...
...Queen's University and Trinity College, Dublin. In neither of them is there now any requirement which students must fulfil in order to be matriculated, though at Trinity there used to be a law that only those who had signed the "Thirty-nine Articles" should have a scholarship or even a degree. Gladstone's bill would have made legal what has hitherto been granted to Roman Catholics and Non-Conformists only by sufferance and custom. But this measure, though approved by the liberal and thoughtful men of all parties, did not suit the Roman Cardinal, who insisted that Trinity...
...emulation which the Nation considers so dreadful a thing, we cannot see any harm in fair rivalry between different persons for a good object, whether it be in boat-racing, in scholarships, or in anything else. It is the unavoidable concomitant of every struggle where all cannot win, and does more good than harm. It may be said that the fame of winning this scholarship will be a partial inducement to the contesting student. Such will undoubtedly be the case until young saints come to college and human weaknesses are known only to the uneducated...