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"Scholarship, far from leading inexorably to a profession, may in fact preclude it. For it does not permit you to abandon it."
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ScholarshipLet us explain Homer in no terms but his own, and our understanding of — Scholarship
"Let us explain Homer in no terms but his own, and our understanding of the work will be the fresher for it. Once the words are grasped with greater precision in their meaning and relevance, they will suddenly recover all their ancient splendour. The scholar too, like the restorer of an old painting, may yet in many places remove the dark coating of dust and varnish which the centuries have drawn over the picture, and thus give back to the colours their original brilliance."
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A scholarship is a form of financial aid awarded to students for further education. Generally, scholarships are awarded based on a set of criteria such as academic merit, diversity and inclusion, athletic skill, and financial need, research experience or specific professional experience.
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"Just as two knives are both sharpened by being rubbed one against the other, so scholars improve and increase in knowledge when in touch with one another."
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"A great scholar…is…not one who depends simply on an infinite memory, but also on an infinite and electrical power of combination; bringing together from the four winds, like the angel of the resurrection, what else were dust from dead mens bones, into the unity of breathing life."
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"We must distinguish between a man of polite learning and a meer schollar: the first is a gentleman and what a gentleman should be; the last is a meer bookcase, a bundle of letters, a head stufft with the jargon of languages, a man that understands every body but is understood by no body."
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"ERUDITION, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull."
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"A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar."
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