Word: takings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cases, get their scholarships under the special provision, when their records as scholars would not entitle them to the least consideration. Now, if a man in easy circumstances - such, I mean, as will afford him the ordinary necessary comforts and pleasures of college life - can have the "gall" to take pecuniary help under a special provision, when really needy classmates of his, who are head and shoulders above him in scholarship, will have to scrape and pinch, or possibly leave college for want of the money he spend on fine apartments or society pleasures, that man I will call contemptible...
...this evil to be remedied? If a man has the face to lie to the Dean about his circumstances, I see no way of action but that the Dean take him to task. That is to say, I think that the college authorities should institute a committee on scholarships, which should judge whether a man's evident style of living entitles him to pecuniary aid or not; such a committee, I admit, would have odious duties, but a crying evil would be remedied to a great extent, at least...
...sections in Political Economy I will take up Prof. Dunbar's chapters on Banking next week...
...students, for it shows in an authoritative way what all have believed in regard to the growth of Harvard in natural prosperity and in general popularity. What President Eliot said in regard to legacies and the way in which many are tied up and so become almost valueless, we take great pleasure in referring to the attention of prospective benefactors of our university. We cannot see what advantage there is in affixing a great mass of conditions to legacies given to educational institutions...
...temporary separation which is soon to take place between President Eliot and the college by his departure to Europe, is significant in many ways. That he allows himself this separation shows that he feels the university to be in a much more prosperous position than in the past; and that now it is committed to a course which must remain unchanged for some time to come. This could hardly have been said of the college before, within the memory of present undergraduates and only last year changes were wrought which greatly required his presence. We know that we express...