New-York tribune., 1901-02-24
SCHOLARSHIPS ARE LOANS.
THOSE WHO ACCEPT THEM SHOULD
REPAY THE COLLEGE WHEN ABLE.
Prominent INSTRUCTORS SAY.

The recent gift OF $3.50 from Alexander NJ welch.
architect 10 Columbia University. in payment
To- the free tuition ne had enjoyed during his
college course at that institution eleven years ago.
has been cordially commended in educational cir
cles as worthy OF imitation by all who awarded
free scholarships. and who prosperous enough
TO repay their Indebtedness 10 their alma mater.
Professor j. Howard Van Amringe. dean Of Co.
lumbia College. expressed 10 Tribune reporter
yesterday the opinion that when a man received
assista ice In any way I'm collegiate profess
sional course. ne should regard IL sacred Obli-
cation 10 make a OF the same. n circum-
stances allowed. for the benefit OF other men who
would he placed in the same situation. Columbia
University had scholarships amounting 10 s6e coo
They were freely given. without any legal obliga-
tion the part Of the recipients Nevertheless Il
seemed 10 Dean Van Amringe that there
moral obligation on the part of the recipients
make good, far they could the amounts
ceived for their beneht so that they might be ex-
pended for the benefit OF others There was no
understanding direct implied regarding a schol-
arship. but every proper minded man must feel IL
obligation be discharged for the benefit OF
those who came after him
Chancellor II. NJ. MacCracken. OF the New-York
University. said yesterday that the general prin-
ciple that the higher education was a loan
from the preceding generation generations the
enc that was growing up. and that. being loan it
ought 20 be repaid IN way o another II
would not do. however. 10 draw too sharp line be
tween students who pay their tuition and those who
DO not pay. The Chancellor continued:
The student who pays fal tuition in any Of the
the instruction which he receives college educs-
6y the Hniversiiy inrinai6 y IayE iniaT' m Ib
value OF the plant OF SEQ $500 a year. suppose
does not pay e-third of the expense. A man who
mas scholarship IS simply beneficiary in larger
lion. IherefoTe, We ineuicate the maxim thai
unpaid service 10 the public as physician teacher
. lawyer, preacher OF member Of any other pr0fes-
6sise oiGh cF business It's the old French n00lesse
should not like TO proclaim the sweeping rule.
ship should feel bound 10 pay back the money SO
like into work that returns a bare sustenance may
Tuition ebonId ,snfaiS nedrs go s 70 Tep5y 'heir
wealthy student, who has cot instruction costing
s2eoO in four years and kss not paid hack The one
lfd thlfd IN tuition o3ght when he becomes heir 70
fortune send check 10 his college for the differ
ence.
self Ttf SO lar as money is concerned. beneiciary
oe1neiheisTy il Is by he means have spoken Of.
into students who pay and students vino do not
IaN- When some students pay the treasureT's bills
they think they are IN inc same position as one
n has gwen him his price They have done nothing
OF the Kind. and are nearly as much under Obliga-
ton to their colleges as The poorest student who
that they have received.
arships, which are only got by crack scholars We
maintain about forty OF these scholarships. which
are worth Sie4 each for four years and a dozen
scholarships which yield 81 90 apiece for four
years. We have also 4 few foundation scholar
snips, worth sleO year and give One-half tuition
rates 10 the sons OF teachers. The only son OF a
wealthy man I'm this city. the head OF a prominent
law hrm, had enjoyed the benefits Of a scholarship
~ the New-hork University. and his father. his
hs han returned 20 us not only the equiv aent for
the cost OF the tuition. but the equivalent OF the
cost OF his sons instruction. about S.Oo0. We
based the appeal 10 graduates IN founding Uni
Versity Heights the fact that many OF them had
received free scholarships. and I have reason 20
believe that number OF liberal con-
t1butions were given substantial repayment
or such obligations. A banker. who had a scholar
hip through his course. chSeFfully made a hand
some subscription 20 University Heights. A sim
ilar subscription came IRON the pastor OF OF
the largest churches in this city The Rev DT.
Jofn NJ. Reid. nOs dead. who was secretary OF
the Foreign Mission Board Of the Methodist Epis-
Syracuse University to show his gratitude for be-
ing made an he by New-YoFk University
granting him scholarship when he was the son
Of baker in narrow circumstances in the lower
part 0f this city.
We have two loan funds. one founded by the late
Rev. DR.. Charles r. Deems. and the other bv Miss
Helen Miller Gould The moneys constituting
them lent from time 10 time students IN
convenient sums. on satisfa ctOTy security.
paid with interest after their leaving college at a
date agreed upon In ten years only note was
unpaid, and that case where the debtor had
becOme a chronic invalid. There is a prospect.
however. Of that note being paid by the surety.