Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Perhaps the most marked result of Extension teaching in England, Mr. Collins says, is the effect which it has had upon the position and influence of women in educational circles. The solid scholarship displayed by women all over England in the Extension classes has caused the exclusive occupants of university privileges to stop and consider the equities of the situation, as they have never thought of doing before...
...foundation of a Bolles Scholarship, however, would seem to anyone who knew the specific nature of Mr. Bolles's interest in moneyless students, emphatically inappropriate. Scholarships (without entering the vexatious question of their use and abuse) undoubtedly stand as prizes, open to a certain class of fellows previously trained to enter a competition as definite in its rules and qualifications as those met by a record-breaking athlete. Not every athlete wins a cup in his first contest. Neither does every promising fellow win a scholarship. Neither the very rich man nor the very poor is in the contest...
...This communication, with a great many suggestions which we have had from members of the faculty and from the students, shows beyond question that the general opinion is against a Bolles Scholarship and in favor of a beneficiary fund...
...hoped, we have received several suggestions concerning the Bolles memorial fund which are worthy of attention. Best among them, however, is this: Instead of using the fund for a scholarship, it is proposed that it be added to the beneficiary funds of the University and used to help worthy students without reference to their standing in their college work Scholarships, as the name implies, are given as a reward for excellence in the line of study. A beneficiary fund is much broader than a scholarship because it may be used to help several men and because character and worth alone...
...matter how small his gift may be it is welcome. Indeed the men who can give the least are likely to be most anxious to give, for to them Mr. Bolles gave most. Unless we are very much mistaken, enough money would readily be subscribed to found a scholarship, to be named after Mr. Bolles. It has been suggested that the CRIMSON receive subscriptions to this fund; this we shall be glad to do unless the students have a better plan. We invite the students to communicate to us any suggestions which they may have on any of the points...