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I 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...
But there is another circumstance which tends to mitigate the "evil efects" of this system of scholarships - the way in which they are awarded. A man, in order to receive the benefit of such aid, must distinguish himself in his studies, and this can he done only in two ways...
But the HERALD says that a scholarship is not received without "a sacrifice of personal independence." If there were no scholarships many a man must restrain that desire - that longing in some fostered even from childhood - to make himself more fully a man; he must remain the subject of adverse...
The HERALD'S chief point against scholarships, however, seemed to be their evil effect on the professions economically. Now the great evil in over-crowded professions is the influx to them of poorly educated men. Indeed a profession is over-crowded only in so much as it is filled up...
In the last part of its editorial the HERALD has taken a position which borders upon absurdity. It says: "It (meaning aid by scholarships) fills the profession with inferior men, who make the competition greater and hence reduce the rewards an able man has the right to expect for his...