Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Club has sent out about five hundred copies of the Circular which it has issued in regard to the proposed Scholarship...
...which will be loaned to the University on the one condition that members of the club and others can always have access to it. The melancholy fate of the Gray engravings has made such a proviso necessary. It is the opinion of Professor Norton that the holder of the scholarship which the club proposes to establish will be able, in a very short time, to send home works of art that will be of real value to the University. The field for exploration is large. Many places where works of art are known to be buried have never been explored...
...Harris Fellowship and the Graduates' Scholarship are open this year to the graduating class...
While such a plan as the above could do no harm, it might do much good. The first result would be to raise the general average, and hence the standard of scholarship. Every one would know at least once in two months just how he was doing, and would be stimulated to improvement. The professors would be urged to do their best, because "A" men would not attend their recitations unless they considered they really could not afford to be absent. Such a plan unites the best features of German, American, and English universities. It gives a man every privilege...
...great, essential attainment which, with us, secures to a man a scholarship, is - indigence. If he has ability, tant mieux; but no supply of the latter rather important attribute qualifies him for winning a University benefice, save in one or two instances, while poorer men are in many ways encouraged to excel in all departments. The results are, first, that the absence of all men not dependent on college aid from the contest lowers the standard of excellence in College; and, second, that society is overstocked with unambitious gentlemen of leisure, unable to pursue professional studies, after graduating, with credit...