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...plan that Columbia proposes to adopt for the education of women, for the execution of which it asks $300,000, is as follows...
...will pass over the HERALD'S mere general statements of what "past experience," etc., has shown, and consider its more positive statements. The HERALD says: "The system is nothing short of offering a prize to young men to adopt a certain profession." Now, the scholarships here in college are not given to men studying a profession, neither are they supposed or intended to be so given. They are given to men that they may be better educated and better fitted for whatever they shall hereafter undertake. The fact that out of 148 men of the last graduating class, who signified...
...suggested for this is that the money be understood as a loan, to be repaid, if possible, after graduation. This might take away part of the sting, but some of the evil effects remain. The system, in fact, is nothing short of offering a prize to young men to adopt a certain profession. A man who enters a profession with the aid of outside means, and not by the aid of his own native talents and feelings, will not do much to ennoble that profession. Besides, according to Adam Smith, it fills the profession with inferior men, who make...
Although this suggestion may be too late to adopt this year, we hope it will be considered in years to come, if there-by the meetings will become of more general interest...
London swells, it is said, are wearing suits, made by Poole, of bright silk plaid, the colors resembling a Roman scarf. It remains to be seen whether America will adopt this latest freak of British barbarism...