Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...WEDNESDAY.Last day of receiving applications for the Harris Fellowship and the Rogers Scholarship...
...Eliot scholarship is hereafter to be open to special students and graduates as well as undergraduates...
...university, his giving so much time to political reforms and distributing his energies and those of the university over too large a field. All this experience of Cornell and her present troubles are of value in showing the worth of the possession of a certain conservative tradition of scholarship for any college, and also in giving warning how easily it may befall that the richest endowment may come to naught if a false policy ever for a time dominate in the councils of a college...
...confronted by the double task of learning something at the university and earning some kind of living. With great exertion he succeeds in giving a few private lessons, which perhaps pay for his dinners. For lodgings, fuel, and all the rest his only hope lies in a scholarship. He does his utmost to obtain it, and if successful he has at least enough to keep him from starving. However, his 150 to 300 rubles do not permit him to go into good society, nor is his company desired at the professor's house. But if he fails...
...adds: "What our colleges stand in urgent need of is funds for general purposes, money which the trustees can apply where it is most needed." Finally he comes to the conclusion that it is becoming the fashion to endow the student instead of the professor, and that these scholarships, memberships, etc., instead of aiding meritorious students, offers to promising students an opportunity to coach the wealthy men, and thus the grade of scholarship is raised...