Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...report of Mrs. Agassiz, the president, gives a brief resume of the work accomplished since the founding of the college, and of the aims and purposes of the institution. In closing her report she speaks of a scholarship, recently endowed, in the name of Joanna Hoar, probably by one of her descendants, though the gift was anonymous...
...increase in gifts to the institution since it became a college and received a distinctive name is marked. Besides the gift in memory of Joanna Hoar, already mentioned, the college has also received funds to establish the Agnes Irwin Scholarship, contributed by about seven hundred women who had been under the care of the present Dean of Radcliffe, during her life in Philadelphia. Another scholarship has been founded by Mrs. Josiah M. Fiske, of New York City, in memory of her husband. Ninety-seven thousand dollars have been received by the treasurer in cash and securities from the estate...
...Peabody spoke a few impressive words, telling the story of Dr. Snow's life and character and his noble service in the civil war. In conclusion he showed how Dr. Snow had won his way to the hearts of Harvard men by his calm, noble character and refined scholarship...
...ladders to the languages in which they are written that I would commend these books, but the languages as ladders to them, where by we may climb to a larger outlook over men and things, to a retreat lifted above the noises of the world. It is not the scholarship I look at, but the sympathy with their higher mood, with that sweetness that comes with age to good books as to good men. Mere scholarship is as useless as the collecting of old postage stamps. Kant used to say that there was nothing in the world so dreary...
...Eliot formed here, at his accession, many survivors of a group of men of distinguished talents and learning, who gave wide fame to the institution, and had striven in its Faculty for a generation to lift it to the higher and freer plane of activity on which alone true scholarship can be found. But in spite of all that had been accomplished at that time, and of all that was due to the well won reputation of individual professors,- to whom the faculty still look back with veneration and pride,- it is the period of the present administration that will...