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Immediately upon approaching the subject of scholarships, one stumbles across questions of practicability. Scholarships ought to be given to those students who most need money and who are likeliest to be useful in the active life of the world after graduation. This much is plain. But the question comes: is not college rank the only practicable test for determining distribution of scholarships...
...answer this, it must clearly be remembered that, in order to give scholarships to the best advantage, two questions ought to be answered with regard to each applicant: First, what will be his usefulness in after life; secondly, how much money does he need to enable him to secure a college education. We believe that the first question cannot be answered definitely and that the attempt to answer it by reference to college rank is particularly disastrous. Who can tell, or who even honestly thinks he can tell, of how much use a student will be in after life...
...keen that it excites the participants to more than normal exertion. They not only have to devote themselves so thoroughly to one kind of activity as to make rounded development out of the question, but they so drain themselves of energy that, the four years over, they need to recover from past work, and are, at best, only half fit to undertake new work. About this fact, no full testimony can be given, and yet we believe that it is a general conviction, rooted in wide experience, that the men who take the highest rank in college...
...American people, for always since the founding of the nation, have states, corporations, and individuals continually sought to make the governing bodies pass laws for their personal benefit. "Never mind the country," they say, "just pass this law for us." With such a state of things, is there not need of patriotism? And if there is need of intelligent men who will sacrifice themselves for their country, it is to the coming generation that we must look for help. It is to aid in this cause that we are getting an education. College training is not for making men better...
...another way, this move of the Prospect Union concerns Harvard men even more closely. The enlarged quarters will be accompanied by an increased need of teachers from the University, and there ought to be no lack of response to this need. Organized with only forty charter members, it has grown, within less than four years, so as to have more than six hundred members. By it a class of people are interested in education whom it would be impossible to reach as effectually in any other manner, and in whom any interest in such matters is commonly despaired...