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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 346 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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SCHOLAR, SCHOLARSHIP

SCHOLAR, SCHOLARSHIP . The See also:

TERM

term " scholar," primarily meaning a " learner," is secondarily applied to one who has thoroughly learnt all that " the school " can See also:

TEACH [THATCH OR THACH], EDWARD (d. 1718)

teach him, one who by See also:

early training and See also:

CONSTANT, BENJAMIN (1845-1902)

constant self-culture has attained a certain maturity in precise and accurate knowledge. Hence the term " scholarship " in the sense of the knowledge or method of a scholar. Similarly " classical scholarship " may be defined as the sum of the See also:

MENTAL

mental attainments of a classical scholar. Scholar-See also:

SHIP

ship is sometimes identified with classical learning or erudition; it is more often contrasted with it. The contrast is thus See also:

DRAWN

drawn by See also:

Donaldson in his Classical Scholarship and Classical Learning (1856), and by See also:

Mark See also:

PATTISON, MARK (1813-1884)

Pattison, in his See also:

ESSAY, ESSAYIST (Fr. essai, Late Lat. exagium, a weighing or balance; exigere, to examine; the term in general meaning any trial or effort)

Essay on See also:

Oxford Studies (1855). " I maintain," says Donaldson, " that not all learned men are accomplished scholars, though any accomplished scholar may, if he chooses to devote the See also:

time to the necessary studies, become a learned See also:

man " (p. 149). " It is not a know-ledge," writes Mark Pattison, " but a discipline, that is required; not See also:

SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science, but the scientific See also:

HABIT (through the French from Lat. habitus, from habere, to have, hold, or, in a reflective sense, to be in a certain condition; in many of the English senses the French use habitude, not habit)

habit; not erudition, but scholar-ship " (Essays, i. 425). The expression " a scholarship " is also used in See also:

England for a See also:

MONEY

money See also:

PAYMENT (Fr. paiement, from payer, to pay; Lat. pacare, to appease, pax, peace)

payment made by a school, See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

college or university, as a See also:

PRIZE, or PRIZE OF WAR (Fr. prise, from prendre, to take)

prize (either for one See also:

YEAR

year or a See also:

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of years) to the successful competitors at an examination at which one or more such scholar-See also:

SHIPS

ships are to be awarded; and the successful See also:

CANDIDATE

candidate is called a " scholar," as the holder of a " scholarship." In this sense the word is almost synonymous with " an See also:

EXHIBITION

exhibition," but the latter is usually considered inferior in merit and dignity, if not in amount. On the See also:

general See also:

HISTORY

history of classical scholarship, see See also:

CLASSICS

CLASSICS: See also:

Greek and Latin.

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