Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...books have not taught him how. Whatever business or trade he may go into, he will find a crowd of youths, often the sons of wealthy men, learning as apprentices, from the very beginning working in a queue, waiting their turn for advancement. After the apprenticeship is over, the scholarship which he has acquired at college will serve a useful part and help him to success. Homer and Legendre will make him not only a better lawyer or preacher, but merchant and miner, simply because they made him a bigger...
President Barnard complimented the members of the graduating class of Columbia College, at the commencement exercises yesterday, for their unusual attainments in scholarship. It is gratifying to note that the assiduous pursuit of knowledge on the Harlem has not interfered with a proper amount of devotion to letters. The Columbia crew will go to New London today. If they will give as good an account of themselves at the oar as the members of the senior class have given at their books the glories of 1876 may be again revived, and Columbia be again the college champion. - [N. Y. Tribune...
...Yale Courant reports that it has been found by actual count that of the students assigned to four divisions according to scholarship, 25 per cent of the highest grade use tobacco, 48 per cent of the second, 70 per cent of the third, and 85 per cent of the fourth. The majority of the students at Cornell have, it is said, resolved to give up smoking on the ground of its bad effect upon the health and capacity for study...
...more difficulty in mastering the hard problems in the higher branches of mathematics than he did in any of his other studies, but his purpose was never to fail. His class was one in which there was a large amount of ambition and an intense struggle for rank in scholarship. In this class Longfellow stood justly among the first. At commencement he was assigned one of the three English orations; the valedictory, being the highest in rank, was received by his older and able scholarly classmate, Little. Gorham Deane, a young man of the most remarkable metaphysical powers I have...
Amherst has the largest scholarship fund of any college in the United States. Its library is to receive $500,000 from the estate of a Boston lawyer, who was a member of the class...