Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Catalogue can be found the list of scholarships in this College. This list is quite a long one, and contains some that have a good income. Following it is this statement: "None but those who need assistance are expected to apply for scholarships." This principle is undoubtedly wrong, and it is gratifying to see that the President, in his recent report, has come to this conclusion. Such a mistaken idea can only arise from a mistaken conception of the end for which a scholarship is established. A scholarship is undoubtedly intended to advance learning as much as possible. Then...
...what does this advantage arise from? Either from his superior learning or his narrow means. It must be the latter. It cannot be his superior learning, for since competition is not free, how do we know that the learning is superior? Any method of assigning scholarships except according to scholarly merit cannot fail of being demoralizing in proportion as the assignment is influenced by a regard for the circumstances of the applicant. It may be said that a change in the present system would have no different result, that the same men would take the scholarships as take them...
...brought into closer connection, so that their bearings from a common centre may be shown. Two new courses in Greek are recommended, one by which a complete view of Greek culture may be obtained through the English, while the other should be reserved for those who aim at accurate scholarship in Greek. In Modern Languages the only criticism is on the "slipshod, gallicized English" into which students translate French; while in Mathematics it is recommended that the work of the Freshman year be reduced, or that a part of it be transferred to the preparatory schools. This brief review...
...impossible to trace in these figures the operation of any rule connecting scholarship with the more or less free use of the privilege in question. Upon the whole, then, the fair deduction from the returns of last year, whether they are examined with respect to average results, or with an inquiry into individual cases, appears to me to be the same which was drawn by my predecessor from the first year's trial of the system of voluntary attendance, - that the influence of the system on the general scholarship of the class, so far as it is exhibited...
Miscellaneous.- By the will of Mrs. Lydia Pierce, of Brunswick, Bowdoin receives $1,000 to found a scholarship...