Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...many men, such differnces of standard signify nothing; but when insturctors, by such methods, calmly decide the fate of the scholarship men, they have a heavier responsibility on their shoulders than they think. The natural result of this evil is to drive men from the courses in which the instuctors announce they will not give the highest marks. Such an effect tends toward the destruction of the benefits of the whole elective system...
...begin with gifts received to establish or increase funds, two new scholarship funds have been founded, $6,000 for the Charles Haven Goodwin scholarship, and $10,000 for the Richard Augustine Gambrill scholarship...
...amount given to each student is not to exceed $350 per annum, and for a time not to exceed five years. The student on his part agrees to refund this money if he may ever become able, and is to forfeit his scholarship if he indulges in tobacco or becomes intoxicated. The scholars thus assisted are to be selected without regard to faith or nationality. Such a bequest to a single institution has rarely been equaled...
Although so few men take honors, those degrees with distinction which require no special study but merely general excellence, are taken by a great number of the men that graduate. But even in the case of these degrees the scholarship has depreciated of late. Up to 1887 over one-half of the graduates took degrees with distinction, and in the class of 1884, 61 per cent. of the graduates took such degrees. But of late classes have not shown such brilliant scholarship. The class of '88 graduated 42 per cent. with distinction, '89 graduated but 39 per cent...
This means that 64 percent have attained to distinguished grades of scholarship and so far from lowering the average or making no impression one way or the other upon it, they raise the whole standard of the University...