Says the Boston Journal, in its Current Notes : "The statement of President Eliot of Harvard that beneficiary aid to students preparing for the ministry has a deleterious influence upon the clerical profession continues to excite much comment. A few agree with President Eliot in thinking that scholarships are only a species of almsgiving, but the majority seem to take a wider view, believing that as aid to education has become necessary in the common schools, it does not injure the ministry or other professions to extend that aid by college scholarships and private assistance."
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