The position of student

Usage examples of studentship.

Being himself the son of a small Scotch tradesman, brought up in the Free Kirk, and elevated into his present exalted position by the early intervention of a Balliol scholarship and a studentship of Christ Church, he felt at liberty to moralise in such non-committing terms on the gradual decay of aristocratic exclusiveness.

We propose to endow a studentship tenable by a young person from Slah for up to a quarter-score of years, to be devoted to any subject taught at our university.

He was clad in a tunic and long summer hose of thin woollen, and his gown, which was the badge of studentship, he carried loose on his arm.

Lister completed his studentship and became for a time an active member of the hospital staff.

He won a double first, however, and was elected a fellow of Oriel in April 1854, Dean Gaisford having refused to promote him to a senior studentship of his own college, on the ground that no servitor had ever before attained to that honour.

Although he remains a devout Anglican all his life, even preaching sermons occasionally, he never goes on to take holy orders for the priesthood, a violation of the terms of his college studentship that Dean Liddell apparently chooses to overlook.

Dodgson proposes a one-third cut in his 300-pound studentship salary, thus allowing him more time for his many literary projects in what he views as his last years of life.

In the matter of literature and the philosophical and sociological sciences, every higher educational establishment carried its studentships, its fellowships, its occasional lectureships, and to produce a poem, a novel, a speculative work of force or merit, was to become the object of a generous competition between rival Universities.