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...presupposed, candidates from different colleges will be examined by a competent board, and the prizes assigned to those who give evidence of the best general qualifications. As in the case of the English schools and the University Scholarships, each college will work for the reputation of furnishing the greatest number of successful candidates. Each, also, will try to be excellent in its various departments, that it may secure many of these scholars as resident graduates...
Probably not more than one in fifty of those now in college have ever seen the engravings, and yet there are some good reasons for it; the limited time of the Curator, the small space allotted to them in the Library, and the number of applications from persons not in college...