But when the result was announced, I found that I had not only won the scholarship from my county, but stood first of all the competitors on the Island.
"The scholarship I had won amounted to only sixty dollars a year.

It seems little enough, but I can say now, after nearly thirty years, that the winning of it was the greatest success I ever have had.

I have had other rewards, which, to most persons, would seem immeasurably greater, but with this difference: that first success was essential; without it I could not have gone on.

The others I could have done without, if it had been necessary." For two years young Schurman attended Prince of Wales College.

He lived on his scholarship and what he could earn by keeping books for one of the town storekeepers, spending less than one hundred dollars during the entire college year.