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to aspiring youth, which yet are little sought after, so that 
their funds are accumulating for lack of competition. It was 
rejoined, that scholarships, intended only to assist boys in an 
undergraduate course, will not be likely to tempt competent 
heads in this great field of commercial enterprise and success ; 
but that the case would probably be far different, if fellow- 
ships were founded, tenable for six or eight years, not for 
boys, but men. It was suggested that the honor of winning 
and wearing such prizes as fellowships, which would be a 
resource to be depended on during the first years of the 
strugj/le of life, would call forth a class of candidates, who 
w'ould spread a leaven of higher culture in this great and 
wealthy community. When the “ merchant princes” of 
Manchester enter into the spirit of their high position, and 
emulate the renowned of Florence and Venice, they will 
conceive for themselves no honor so great and so enduring 
as to be the founders of fellowships at Owens College. Their 
names would thus be honored by posterity. 
