Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fees, as Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. Others have very small fees. At the Institute of Technology the charges are $200 per annum. At Harvard the tuition fee is universal, while at Tufts College not more than five per cent. of the students are required to pay it. When a scholarship has the effort of bringing to the college persons who would not otherwise come, the institution is the gainer by the amount of his tuition...
...present with giving the country sound law through her Chief Justice Waite, enacting wise laws by her Senator Evarts, constructing a navy worthy of our rank among nations and our proper defence through her Secretary of the Navy, Whitney, and rising to the best traditions of the diplomacy, scholarship, wit and eloquence of the American embassy to England through her Minister Phelps. 'Rah to Yale...
...meaning in plain, but remarkably pure English, a point in which they award the palm of excellence to this author, who is now known to be a Boston lady of high position, no less eminent for her generous support of works of practical benevolence, than for her classical scholarship. The present writer does not hesitate to pronounce the translation of the Georgias in the present volume to be fully equal in scholarly rendering to its predecessors. It will, we venture to predict, be no less welcome to Harvard students of Plato, than to many who desire to understand Plato...
...students and entitled to encouragement and support; it being however, my wish that said money should not be awarded to any student solely by reference to his rank or standing as a scholar, but that regard should also be had to earnest and honest endeavor to attain excellence. The scholarship hereby established shall be called the 'Price Greenleaf Scholarship...
...principal of said trust fund shall be used or appropriated to the repair of any buildings occupied by or intended to be occupied by the said library, or to the erection of any such building. This gift is subject to the following conditions: First, that the scholarship shall be known and designated as the 'Price Greenleaf Scholarship;' second, that a separate and distinct department of the library of the college shall be established and maintained and a portion of the building appropriated to the library shall be set apart to be known and designated as the 'Price Greenleaf department...