Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...what do you know of their financial matters?" I answer at once: In some cases, nothing, in some a good deal; but this I do know in every case, that when a holder of a scholarship lives in a $300 room, and, compared to the average student, in real luxury, that man is either frightfully green and imprudent in his expenditures, or else he is frightfully dishonest in taking money he does not need...
...have noticed that such men, in most cases, get their scholarships under the special provision, when their records as scholars would not entitle them to the least consideration. Now, if a man in easy circumstances - such, I mean, as will afford him the ordinary necessary comforts and pleasures of college life - can have the "gall" to take pecuniary help under a special provision, when really needy classmates of his, who are head and shoulders above him in scholarship, will have to scrape and pinch, or possibly leave college for want of the money he spend on fine apartments or society...
Another thing: I think there is injustice done in the present mode of awarding scholarships to each class separately, the average of scholarships being different in the various classes, men of equal ability and equally good records are treated differently. The one who happens to be in a dull class gets perhaps $200, while the other, whose class is superior, gets left. This was particularly noticeable in the last assignment; a man with 84 per cent. in the sophomore class got a Shattuck scholarship, while men with 87 per cent. in the junior class failed to get anything...
...under the elective system men are tempted to, and actually do, take a "soft" courses with the expectation of getting high marks, and so "freezing" on to a big fat scholarship. This has become so large an evil that the high scholars almost invariably shun very valuable but difficult courses, except as extras...
...present it is but speaking the honest truth, that there is very little true scholarship at Harvard, little desire to learn for learnings sake, and but very little respect for high scholarship...