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...State control is detrimental to popular education - (a) It puts education into politics - (b) It leads to all the evils of uniformity - (c) It destroys the self reliance and interest of parents and communities; Nation XLII, 51 - (d) It causes unequal burdens on the well-to-do classes: Pop. Sci. Mon. vol. st. p. 124- it discourages private benevolence...
...well-to-do burgess and it is probable that his education was the best that the Stratford grammar school could afford. When only 18 years of age he married a woman eight years his senior, the daughter of a farmer who lived in the country near Stratford. Three children were born to them, Suzanna and the twins, Hamnet and Judith. Hamnet, the similarity of whose name to that of "the Dane" will at once be noticed, was Shakspere's only son and it is probable that the father's affections were strongly centred on him. However, he died when only...
...President's report is published a table which shows conclusively that the restriction of scholarships to needy men does not, as many have complained, take away from well-to-do men an indispensable incentive to effort for high standing. A large proportion of the men of high standing do not receive any sort of aid from the University, and have nothing to hope for in the shape of prizes, except out of the regular course. In England, of course, and at many colleges in this country scholarships are given to the men of highest standing without regard to their needs...
...speaker said that there is one class that come from Harvard on which it is perhaps incumbent to take intelligent views in politics-the leisure class. This leisure class, those who are more than well-to-do, is gradually on the increase and it is yet to be seen whether their increase is an advantage. It is a poor ambltion for the wealthy young man to make pleasure the sole pursuit of his life. He has a poor soul who does not appreciate that in this nineteenth century is the grandest opportunity for good deeds and reform. The thing...
...appropriate that men who have trained hard for a month should be rewarded for their work. The giving of cups also will, we believe, help along the end for which class games have partially been organized-the awakening of a permanent and general enthusiasm for football. An organization so well-to-do as the football association certainly cannot refuse the cups on the ground of expense, and there can scarcely be any other valid reason for neglecting to act in the matter...