Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...further complains that some students are handicapped by their poor preparation for college and are obliged to take a lower stand than their more fortunate fellows. In this connection, he finds fault with the method of awarding prizes because he says it is made purely on the basis of scholarship. In this, he is only partially right. Scholarship is of course the basis of awarding aid; what else could be? But the gentlemen who have the distribution of scholarships in charge, have the privilege of using their discretion as to whether high standing shall be the only thing considered...
...Whatever may be said of Harvard's tendency to neglect study for the encouragement of athletics, her system of deturs, prizes, scholarships and final honors has by stimulation to overwork caused the death of many a promising student. I was graduated from Harvard nine years ago, and know whereof I speak. The sudden insanity of one of the most promising of recent graduates recalls painful memories of that forcing system which has so long been in vogue at my own university. The leader of my class shortly after entering upon his sophomore work died of brain fever. The brightest light...
...Harvard is generously equipped with scholarships which benevolent people have contributed for the assistance of needy students. Of more than seven hundred undergraduates probably over one half need, or think they need, pecuniary assistance. These scholarships are assigned upon the basis of the student's percentages appearing on the annual rank list. In such a large college the competition is necessarily great. Those who have been fitted at the Harvard preparatory schools of the Eastern States generally have the advantage from the start. Scholarships being regarded as prizes for high marks are often eagerly sought after whether needed...
...design of would be benefactors of Harvard that their bequests should become prize scholarships to be fought over by the competitors on a petty rank list? Is it conducive to the development of manhood and of scholarship for its own sake that students must become the slaves of annual marks and that the difference of one per cent should debar them from obtaining needed assistance at one of the most trying periods of their lives...
...York Local Committee on Harvard Examinations for Women has offered a scholarship of three hundred dollars as a prize to the candidate who shall pass the examination in New York with the highest credit. The scholarship is intended as an inducement chiefly to those women who desire to use the money for the purpose of pursuing their studies during the coming year at any college chosen by them and approved by the above named committee. A fund for a second scholarship of a similar nature is now being raised. The examinations will be held in the rooms of the Young...