Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...historic university of Nashville for lack of funds was obliged to close, and the Peabody College now occupies the site of the old university. The college is patronized by every southern State and its graduates are the most prominent of the younger professors of the South. There are 114 scholarships which are distributed among the different States according to scholastic population. Each scholarship pays the incumbent $200 and lasts two years. Tuition and text books are free to students from all parts of the world, the only charge being $6 a year. The annual expenses of the college are about...
...reported the gift of $50,000 from Mrs. Susan D. Brown to be used in the erection of a new college dormitory; of $25,000 from Mrs. Robert L. Stuart of New York for the foundation of a new professorship; of $5,000 from an unknown friend for the scholarship fund. Degrees of Doctor of Philosophy were conferred upon Prof. Durell of Dickinson College, on Prof. McNeil of Lake Forest University and on Prof. McMillan, President of Richmond College, Ohio. Among petitions granted was one which shows in a marked degree the difference in liberally of spirit as regards athletics...
Senator Hoar followed. His speech was brilliant. He welcomed the learning and scholarship of the country to share in its government, and felt it a sad thing when such men held aloof from their duty. He spoke of the graduates whose pictures hang in Harvard's halls, and described what their feelings would be on such an occasion as the coming election day. He eloquently outlined the character of the candidates and drew a graphic comparison, being continually interrupted by cheers...
...thorough examination was recently made in Cornell University of the records in scholarship of the men who engaged in intercollegiate sports since the opening of the college. The result showed that the average scholarship for the year of each man who rowed on the crews was 70 per cent., that of base ball players 73 per cent, and that of those engaged in track athletics 76 per cent. The per cent. of athletes who graduated was greater than the per cent. for the whole University. These results whould seem to show that intercollegiate contests, when kept within reasonable limits...
Vassar College has recently received a scholarship of $6,000 from Calvin Huntington of Fort Scott, Kansas, it being his intention to provide for the education, in all coming time, of his descendants or those bearing the Huntington name. The need of scholarships is far greater than the supply therefor. Mr. Huntington's gift is highly appreciated. This is the second scholarship that the college has received within a year, the other being one of $8,000, given by the late Stephen Buckingham of Poughkeepsie...