Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...space devoted to the subject of scholarships in the President's Report, and the fact that many of the Junior class have just been writing forensics on the propriety of throwing them open to those who are not in need, makes this a very suitable time for the further discussion of our present system of scholarships. In another column will be found a communication from a graduate, and we shall be glad to welcome any intelligent discussion of the subject. It is evident that it is not closed by the President's Report. He has shown, to be sure, that...
...President says in his report that the first scholarship in Harvard College was founded in 1852. This will be news to William Browne of Salem, who gave pound 100 to the College in 1687 "for the bringing up of poor scholars...
...Divinity School does not appear to be in a very flourishing state. The income of the school available for its maintenance, excluding the income of scholarship and beneficiary funds, amounts to $16,000; general expenses estimated at $2,000, leaving but $14,000 for salaries of teachers, - a sum which will support three professorships and a half. During 1877-78 there were four professors two lecturers upon History, and an instructor in Elocution; and accordingly the school had a deficit of $3,857.19. There are now (1878-79) employed in the school three professors, a lecturer on Ecclesiastical History...
...again we feel the weight of our responsibility in counselling wisely the "men" who have been intrusted by anxious parents to a foster-mother's care. Though the class of '78 exerted an elevating and manly influence on the college, and were characterized by good scholarship as well as by conviviality, they will be missed more as individuals than as a body. The Nine lose a captain whom it will be very difficult to replace. Many of the societies lose their most efficient officers and most energetic members, and the Glee Club and Pierian Sodality will find several missing from...
...will not be abused, but treated with such prudence and discretion that the system may soon be still further extended, until Harvard shall become a real university, free from the restrictions which are requisite in high schools, but no longer necessary to a broader and manlier course towards maturer scholarship. We hope that every Junior will properly appreciate the privilege accorded by the Faculty, and duly estimate the responsibility thrown upon his class...