Word: favorities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both the University PBH group and its affiliate, the Radcliffe Volunteer Service Organization, favor combining their activities into one organization...
Scholarship aid proved the decisive factor in many cases. The Department of Financial Aid refused to grant assistance to 132 eligible candidates, almost all of whom received scholarships from other colleges. On the other hand, only five potential students out of 22 rejected Harvard financial aid in favor of Brown, Dartmouth, M.I.T., or Princeton...
Although the rate of acceptance averaged 70 per cent for the entire nation, only 50 per cent of the eligible candidates from the Pacific Coast accepted. Many of those rejecting Harvard in favor of Western colleges cited the "high cost of transportation and the low amount of expense money allowed under scholarships especially for travel costs...
While opposing student visits to China, he urged that the press be allowed to enter the communist country to improve "our communications" from it. Kennedy did say earlier in the evening that he would "certainly favor" the recent Russian proposal that Harvard and Columbia exchange students with Moscow University. He continued that he would support "any proposal of that type, particularly one which involved exchanges with Poland...
...Defense Department's announcement that it will restore a $170,000,000 cutback in Air Force Research and development funds "is not a great victory" for those who favor increased military spending, according to W. Barton Leach '21, Storey Professor of Law and member of the Defense Studies program...