Word: aids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week he called nitroglycerin to his aid in an attempt to get out. Just as he was about to touch off an ill considered charge which would have blown the jail and himself to atoms, he was shot at by a prison guard, and several other prosiners were wounded before he was killed...
...comments of the Alumni Bulletin on the CRIMSON's "Confidential Guide" recognize and appreciate the Guide's purpose in so far as they realize that it was intended to aid undergraduates who wish information on college courses beyond what they can find in official University publications. The Bulletin, however, when it criticizes the estimate of courses as "the unsupported say so of an undergraduate editor", has failed to grasp the spirit in which the Guide was published. The CRIMSON did not have in mind the voluminous compendium of advice which the Bulletin recommends for the future. To quote from...
...classes of tuition scholarships or scholarship loans, granted to students selected on the basis of high character, financial need and promise of leadership. The stipends, as determined by the student's scholarship average, varied from $300 a year to $180. Under the new plan the general criteria for scholarship aid remain unchanged but the minimum scholastic average qualifying a student for such assistance has been raised from 70 to 75. The number of individual scholarships thus available will under the new plan be reduced, but those students selected under the higher standards will receive a larger measure of assistance...
...commenting upon the new plan Albert Beecher Crawford, director of the University Bureau of Appointments, under whose direction the scholarship awards are made, said: "Scholarship aid and employment secured by the Bureau for students, have both increased approximately 450 percent in the past six years. The per capita benefit during that same period, due to higher costs and the great increase in students, has nevertheless barely held its own. With the existing economic conditions Yale must choose between helping more students to a degree inadequate for the majority, or assisting fewer and more highly selected students each to a greater...
...kinds and have won social, literary, dramatic and athletic recognition; but at the same time have maintained a general scholastic average of 79, within one point of 'honors' and well above the 'quality credit' average of 75 now being adopted as the minimum scholastic qualification for University tuition aid...