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Three scholarships, worth a total of $850, have been awarded by the Harvard chapter of the American Veterans Committee to natives of the Far East who will study at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences next year, Roy F. Gootenberg '49, chairman of the AVC, announced last night...
Money for the proposed fellowship would come from the Evans Carlson Memorial Fund established by the AVC in 1947. The $850 now in the fund was earned when the Chapter sponsored a talk by Henry A. Wallace in October, 1947. Although they did not know exactly what the fund would be used for at that time, the members tried to increase it but were unable to get more speakers...
Last week the AVC executive board decided to recommend that the fund, which now rests in a Washington bank, be used "to assist in the support of one or more Asiatic student whose studies at Harvard are intended as preparation for future constructive service in the regeneration of Asia." If the motion is approved by the members the money will be given next year to one or two Asiatic students who need...
...AVC Executive Committee will decide before June 1 the specific project for which the fund will be spent. Leading alternatives last night were the DP fund and the adoption of a Chinese student. The fund was set up over a year ago out of the proceeds of Henry A. Wallace's speech at Soldiers Field...
Exhibition of the world's largest captive dip-duck will take place today at noon, Roy F. Gootenberg '49, publicist of Harvard's AVC, announced last night...