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.
Not to be confused with pathos, a successful arousal of sympathy and pity. Bathos (/ËbeÉªÎ¸És/ BAY-thoss; Greek: Î²Î¬Î¸Î¿Ï, lit. depth) is a literary term first coined by Alexander Pope's 1727 essay Peri Bathous to describe amusingly failed attempts at sublimity (i.e., pathos).