Word: higginson
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...WRITER in Thursday's Advertiser recommends Colonel T. W. Higginson to the graduates as a capable and suitable man for Overseer...
...portion of the President's Report relating to scholarships has been republished in separate form, and will be distributed among those who have been misled by Mr. Higginson's logic...
...HIGGINSON contributes to the Woman's Journal an exposition of the scheme of education for women at Harvard...
...another column will be found the last of three articles by a graduate on the subject of scholarships, in which he has favored a system of open scholarships. Since we received this third article a long letter from Mr. T. W. Higginson has appeared in the New York Nation, in which he takes the same ground. The arguments have been well stated, and it only remains for us to express our agreement with the views of these writers. They have certainly supported the side of the case which is taken by the great majority of undergraduates; in fact, we have...
...called, at Harvard, but merely a system of pecuniary assistance; secondly, that the authorities try to remedy the defect by applying to the present system the name of scholarships, and by making public the names of successful applicants. This only makes the matter worse, however; for, as Mr. Higginson well says, there are very few undergraduates "so obtuse as not to see the difference between an honor which is simply and unequivocally an honor, and a so-called honor which is simply a certificate that among a certain number of poor young men a certain applicant is on the whole...