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Professors at Brown are declaring against the marking system...
...meeting of the Havard Union last evening the question of German State socialism was thoroughly debated. The sympathies of the meeting, as shown by the several votes taken, were all decidedly opposed to the system proposed by the Socialists. The next debate will be, "Resolved, That the present tendency toward monopoly in the United States should be checked by legislative enactment...
...editorials an article which seemed to me so unjust and so positively fallacious in argument as to require some notice. From a statement made by President Eliot before the New York Harvard Club concerning beneficial endowments to the clerical profession, the HERALD justifies itself in attacking the scholarship system at Harvard...
...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 not given to men studying a profession, neither are they supposed or intended to be so given. They are given to men that they may be better educated and better fitted for whatever they shall hereafter undertake. The fact that out of 148 men of the last graduating class, who signified...
...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: either he must have extraordinary natural ability, or he must show himself capable of most diligent application. Now will the HERALD insist that a man possessing these qualities "cannot do much to ennoble his profession?" I say the influence a man shall have on his profession depends on the man himself...