Identified as I had been for so many years with elementary education in South Australia, my mind was well prepared to applaud the movement in favour of the higher education of poorer children of both sexes by the foundation of bursaries and scholarships, and the opening up of the avenues of learning to women by admitting them to University degrees.
"An Autobiography"
Catherine Helen Spence
Education became a part of the regular business of the state; all the schools and colleges being placed under the immediate care of one of Napoleon's ministers-all prizes and bursaries bestowed by the government-and the whole system so arranged, that it was hardly possible for any youth who exhibited remarkable talents to avoid the temptations to a military career, which on every side surrounded him.
"The History of Napoleon Buonaparte"
John Gibson Lockhart
For at the colleges of our land are "bursaries" provided by pious patrons, once poor themselves, and often with a thirst for knowledge unquenched-boys put too early to the bench or the counter.
"The Dew of Their Youth"
S. R. Crockett