"You don't go to a bank and say, 'I'm very poor but worthy -- please give me some money,' " Professor Fogel said in an interview.
Make sure that at least some poor, but worthy, students can attend by charging the others so much that there will easily be some money left over for scholarships and bursaries.
It is hard to convince advertisers that poor readers are worthy targets.
But perhaps it makes better sense for companies to see the poor as patrons worthy of their solicitations.
In a tragic twist of laziness and poor academic achievement worthy of the most heart-wrenching misery memoir, I was never a student.
In the spring of 1876, the Arizona Citizen declared: "Ochoa is constantly doing good for the public," and concluded, "Ochoa is the true and useful friend of the worthy poor, of the oppressed, and of good government".
Nor for that matter, does Uras, where the two extremes of the dissipated rich and worthy poor are painted with such broad strokes that the painting never quite coalesces.
Oglethorpe petitioned King George II to allow the country's worthy poor a second chance in an overseas settlement, and then instituted laws that sought to erase class distinctions while prohibiting alcohol and slavery.
The worthy poor, in particular, signed them, as they said the only way for them to get first-class surgeons was to protect them against villainous attacks.
Meanwhile, every other black character is made of particleboard: worthy victims, poor workingmen, proud mothers.
