Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within the past few weeks it appears that the free ride is over. Following the suggestion of Harvard's John Monro, eastern colleges have agitated for a central scholarship clearing house, where a paid College Board staff will objectively appraise financial need of applicants, and then determine a joint stipend for the colleges to sue in awarding grants...
...Through a special arrangement with Harvard, 29 Eastern colleges now actively try to persuade their students to go into teaching: they hold conferences, mail out pamphlets, put up posters. Students who join up go for a fifth year to the Harvard Graduate School of Education, not only take professional courses but do some actual teaching at nearby schools. At the end of the year, they get either a master of education degree or a master of arts in teaching. Two years ago, 40 students went to Harvard from the participating colleges. This year's registration...
...good halfbacks. The competition started with the Harvard National Scholarships and it has extended principally to the small colleges. Authorities have been tempted to make a student's need a secondary consideration, and also let an attempt at geographical distribution outweigh the needs of often more worthy Eastern students...
Even without its ace jumper and cross country man, Captain Hans Vitzthum, who had dislocated his shoulder prior to the meet, the varsity ski team placed second to Norwich in the Eastern Divisional Championships at Lyndonville, Vt., this weekend...
This was the varsity's first Eastern intercollegiate Swimming League meet of the season, and its first test since mid-year exams. The varsity now has four victories...