Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Boston Herald has founded two scholarships of $600 and $400 respectively. They are to be given to the graduates of high schools and academies who have shown especial ability in English composition, and who wish to take a four years college course. One fourth of each scholarship will be payable yearly on presentation by the candidates of certificates showing that they have passed their examination for that year...
...hesitation should exist. It is only just that men should be given a chance to know how they stand. Often a student finds it quite impossible to tell whether he is doing satisfactory work in lines of study entirely new to him. A man trying for honors, or a scholarship, also, is greatly handicapped by not knowing how an instructor regards his work. He may have failed to understand what was expected of him and could satisfy the instructor only after learning his error. The only argument that we have heard against giving out the marks is that...
Professor Francke of the German department has a long letter in the last number of the New York, Nation on a "Difference in German and American University Methods." Prof. Francke calls attention to the German Private docent wesen, an institution which is perhaps the most destructive of German scholarship. The private docent is a young man who has just won his doctorate, who has convinced the faculty of a German university that he is an independent searcher after truth. He is at once admitted to the same kind of teaching as the oldest members of the faculty, but assumes only...
...Yale News gives some interesting statistics in regard to the scholarship of the athletic men at New Haven. The opinion has been prevalent in many communities that college athletes in general have an exceedingly low standing. This idea, however, has been more than once disproved during the last three or four years by the yearly reports given officially from many of the largest colleges in the country. The Yale News has interested itself in the matter, and the following figures are the results of investigations in regard to the honor men in the senior and junior classes at Yale...
...student over twenty-one years will be allowed to compete for a scholarship at Cornell after...