Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...publication of the first catalogue of the Harvard University Press calls forcible attention to the service which such an institution can render to scholarship as well as the University. This list of more than 230 books, dealing with many subjects all intimately connected with the teaching and research carried on at the University, indicates more clearly than could any direct statement the healthy growth of productive scholarship at Harvard. The distribution of this list is but one of the many ways in which the Harvard Press is making this scholarship known throughout the world...
...such a press lies in the fact that some of the most creditable work of the foremost scholars of the world is not sufficiently profitable commercially to tempt the regular publisher. A subsidized institution, however, specially organized to deal with books of this character, can do much to advance scholarship by making possible the prompt publication and wide dissemination of the results of scientific research. Such a press can also advance the prestige of the University by issuing over its imprint learned works that may not need special subsides. These books would be accepted, without doubt, by commercial publishers...
There is encouragement for American scholarship in the recently published annual report of the Rhodes Scholarship Trust. American Rhodes scholars at Oxford last year took five first honors in jurisprudence, and captured nine university prizes, among which were the Matthew Arnold prize for an English essay and the Oldham prize for a classical essay. In the classics in general their showing was less good than in other subjects. Outside the field of scholarship, they have done well in athletics, and--strangely enough--an American has been chosen for the first time to the presidency of the Union, which is regarded...
...their studies in the course of the year, or to spend many hours of valuable time in supporting themselves by work which is poorly remunerated and is accompanied by no corresponding intellectual advantage to them. Some cases of urgent necessity are met each year by loans from the Scholarship and Beneficiary Money Returned Fund in Harvard College, but this Fund must in the nature of things be used mainly for students in the College, and is quite inadequate for the needs of men in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. A moderate sum (say $5,000) would be sufficient...
...Committee on Scholarship has proceeded with the recommendations made in the last report, and has made definite progress. The matters are still in the hands of the University authorities for final ratifications, so no detailed report is possible...