Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...York Local Committee on Harvard Examinations for Women desires to raise a scholarship of $6,000, the interest of which shall be applied toward defraying the college expenses of whatever candidate the authorities at Harvard College shall find to have passed the best examination among the women who presented themselves in that year in New York...
...thoroughness which are so necessary to women when called upon to take part in the practical affairs of life, whether as managers of households or as earners of bread. Therefore the committee begs that all who are interested in the education of girls will contribute toward the desired scholarship as a practical encouragement of the examinations...
...Such a scholarship would also be of great service to candidates of small means who are desiring to enter college. A candidate who will complete her examination in the coming June, and whose average for the first half of her examination, passed in June last, was over 70 per cent., having fitted herself while teaching for support at a country district school, is now making an effort to obtain sufficient means to enable her to spend some time in collegiate study, in order that she may increase her value as a teacher. Such candidates should be encouraged, and the committee...
...scholarship which was founded last year by the alumnae of Vassar College at Chicago has just been supplemented by the gift, from one of the alumnae, of a scholarship in a preparatory school, where a student who wishes to compete for the college scholarship can obtain the needed preparation free of charge...
...committee on scholarships have awarded the following freshman scholarships: Bright scholarships to F. C. Babbitt, C. N. Brown, A. E. Burr, W. M. Cannon; Bigelow scholarships, C. B. Gulick, C. H. C. Wright; Matthews scholarships, H. Copeland, C. L. Slattery; Sever scholarship, F. W. Sever...