Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Scholarship of the Class of 1867, with an income of $150, will be awarded soon after the beginning of the second half-year to a Freshman in Harvard College thought to be "meritorious and in need of assistance." Preference will be given to sons of the members of the College Class...
Mention is also made of a gift of $1000 for the purchase of books by Mrs. Harriet Jackson Morse of Boston in memory of Mrs. Sarah Alden Ripley. A new scholarship, just founded, bears the name of the president, Elizabeth Cary Agassiz. The Massachusetts Society of Colonial Dames also offers for the first time a prize of not less than fifty, nor more than one hundred, dollars for the best essay of sufficient merit on some subject connected with the Colonial History of New England...
...death resulted from an accident at the cotton mill which he had constructed in northern Alabama-and where he was greatly beloved-and it is my wish that a student from North Alabama, if of good character and scholarship, shall have the preference over others in the assignment of the income of this scholarship. If in any year no such student shall, at the usual time, apply for the income, of this scholarship. If in any year no such student shall, at the usual time, apply for the income, it may be assigned, at the discretion of the President...
...signed) J. HOWARD NICHOLS."It was voted that Mr. Nichols's gift be gratefully accepted on the terms named and that the Howard Gardner Nichols Scholarship be established with an income at present of two hundred dollars...
...This scholarship will not be available until the year...