Some merit scholarships also consider financial need, but rewarding talent is the primary objective. In most cases the scholarship sponsor has a set of criteria they use to select the winners from among the qualified applicants. Sponsors can have a variety of goals in offering a scholarship.
A batholith (from Greek bathos, depth + lithos, rock) is a large emplacement of igneous intrusive (also called plutonic) rock that forms from cooled magma deep in the Earth's crust. batholith is an exposed area of (mostly) continuous plutonic rock that covers an area larger than 100 square kilometers (40 square miles). Areas smaller than 100 square kilometers are called stocks.
Bathos is an insincere and/or excessively sentimental demonstration of pathos. Adjective: bathetic. The term bathos may also refer to an abrupt and often ludicrous transition in style from the elevated to the ordinary. As a critical term, bathos was first used in English by poet Alexander Pope in his satirical essay On Bathos: Of the Art of Sinking in Poetry (1727).