Word: gi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unable to meet their expenses from monthly Government checks, students attending college under the GI bill are dipping regularly into their savings; and those who have no reserve supply of pretty green stuff to draw upon find they must take term-time jobs. Some men are holding two or three jobs simultaneously...
...that the government increase its contribution to the ex-serviceman's education. They contend that the government has committed itself to a certain course of action and has made guarantees to veterans--guarantees which are not being fulfilled. This argument carries a good deal of validity because whether the GI bill was intended to cover all or only a given percentage of the cost of a college education, it is failing to serve its original purpose...
Arnold Rivkin 2L, regional vice-chairman of the AVC and chairman of the organization's National Education Committee, said that the conference will be paralleled by simultaneous meetings across the country designed to "find out how the student-veterans themselves feel about the GI Bill...
...administration and the faculty of the University had, in most cases, done their utmost to facilitate and ease his reconversion problems. Queueing for an education was a novelty for the college but no new matter for him after the past years. Harvard 'quarters' were still infinitely preferable to the GI variety. He had very few grounds for complaint...
With the addition of 16 awards to the normal complement, a plan to continue GI subsidies for exchange scholars, and an allowance of *100 in addition to the regular *400 stipend for civilian students Rhodes Scholarships this year and next provide an enlarged opportunity for American undergraduates. Total number of awards for 1946 and 1947 now stands at 48 apiece...