Ralph Waldo Emerson
1643: Lady Mowlson bequeaths the first undergraduate scholarship
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As an undergraduate, Ralph Waldo Emerson 1821 took the position of the President’s Freshman. He was responsible for “perform[ing] the official errands of the President” and received about forty dollars annually, the cost of his room at the College.
The position would evolve into what we know today as work-study.