scholarship, n.Definitions

Scholarship is difficult — no person is born a scholar

Scholarship is polite argument.

Scholarship is investigating what is, and not what pleases.

Scholarship is esoteric, almost conspiratorial, and the principles of academic freedom require that it should be left that way.

Scholarship is the attempt to exhaust a subject by first exhausting the reader.

Scholarship is useless. If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. To see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.

Scholarship is rarely correlated with greatness — The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

Scholarship is, when at its best, not that which informs, but that which transforms the system of assertion in the former literature'.