Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bright U.S. high school graduates these days, scholarships pop up like gold nuggets in a lucky miner's pan. Last week from its headquarters in Evanston, Ill., the National Merit Scholarship Corp. announced the names of 850 winners-a record crop in the biggest, fastest growing privately supported scholarship program in U.S. history...
...high school seniors), has 87 sponsors ranging from Sears, Roebuck, which has financed 350 scholarships so far, to the Central Soya Co. Inc. with one. By the time the 1959 crop graduates from college, the companies will have given some $15 million to 3,000 National Merit scholars. And, beside the actual scholarship winners, 10,000 selected 1959 Merit finalists can count on aid from such other sources as colleges and foundations...
Harvard has accepted 58 National Merit Scholarship winners and 16 General Motors National Scholars for the Class of '63, Fred L. Glimp, Jr. '50, Director of Freshman Scholarships, announced yesterday...
Because the National Merit Scholarship Corporation has reduced the total number of awards from 989 to around 700, the number of Merit winners accepted by the College declined by 36 from last year...
Radcliffe has announced acceptance of 20 Merit and five G.M. Scholarship recipients. Though the drop from last year's 40 Merit winners is more than proportional to the decline in number of awards, Mrs. Constance B. Pratt, Director of Radcliffe Admissions, explained that this can be explained by usual year-to-year fluctuations. She believes that Radcliffe next year will still have a greater number of Merit winners than any other women's college in the country...