Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Advantages would be gained. Some such moderate standard would ensure, on the one hand, that no one should be given a scholarship who did not have good brain power and, on the other hand, that no should be tempted to overwork this brain power. It would lessen the number of men who bring scholarly ability into disrepute, and increase the chances of this ability being appreciated and prized by college men. It would give money in rational proportions, and it would give all poor men a chance for college...
Indeed, we consider that the injustice of the present system of scholarships falls most heavily on the men who compete. It is bad enough to be worked at a pace which makes his college life full of pain and which leaves him at graduation fagged out. But this is not all. Under the present system, there is no guarantee that the man who ought to have the most money will receive it. Suppose one man really needs five hundred dollars; the other only three hundred. Yet if the second man stands a little higher in his classes, he secures...
...another way, does this system work great injustice. Take the man who comes to college without a cent and works his way through. What chance has he to obtain a scholarship? He must devote a large part of his time to money-making. He has, then, so much less time and energy for studies. How can he expect to compete successfully with the man who only needs a small amount of money and who can devote all his time to his studies so as to secure this small amount by a scholarship? Students are not given scholarships, - cannot be given...
...student wishes to secure a scholarship now he must first establish that he has need of the money, and then the amount of money given him will, unless the terms of the scholarships have special provisions, ordinarily be regulated by his standing in his studies relative to the standing of all others who are to be given scholarships...
...would be augmented in consequence of the fact that the time devoted to training was placed to the credit of one's college standing instead of being made to detract from it. To prevent this privilege from being abused, it might be well to require a certain standard of scholarship from those to whom it was extended...