Word: downers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Joel Downer, Advocating a Better Learning Environment...
Harvard offers scholarship money to admitted students whose last names are Anderson, Baxendale, Borden, Bright, Downer, Pennoyer and Murphy, according to the National Scholarship Research Service in San Rafael, California...
According to Miller, Harvard has persuaded most of the donors' executors to include financial need as a requirement for the scholarships. However, some "haven't been convinced." Students with the surnames Ellis, Downer or Pennoyer, can still receive scholarship money regardless of need...
Because the funds for most of these scholarships were established long ago, Miller said the University may not defy the donors' stipulations. For instance, the Charles Downer Scholarship Fund, set up in 1927, states that, "Scholarships shall first be awarded to students of the University, whether in the academic department or in any graduate or professional school, who bear the family name or surname of Downer...
...anyone under 21 years old. But there are many variations. Some supporters would permit the legal sale of marijuana only; Washington Mayor Marion Barry might add cocaine but is dead set against legalizing PCP (angel dust). Economist Friedman would permit the sale of every imaginable brand of upper and downer at the local drugstore. Dershowitz would go so far as to distribute heroin free from mobile vans in inner cities to "medically certified addicts...