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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haven, Conn., October 7.--A new scale of tuition scholarship stipends and a higher minimum standard of qualification for scholarship aid has been adopted, by Yale University and will be effective this year for incoming Freshmen, and next year for all undergraduates. Under the new scale students maintaining an average grade of 85 percent or above will receive $400 for the year and those maintaining an average grade of 75 to 84 percent inclusive will receive $300 for the year, which is the full amount of the tuition...
...scholarship loans, granted to students selected on the basis of high character, financial need and promise of leadership. The stipends, as determined by the student's scholarship average, varied from $300 a year to $180. Under the new plan the general criteria for scholarship aid remain unchanged but the minimum scholastic average qualifying a student for such assistance has been raised from 70 to 75. The number of individual scholarships thus available will under the new plan be reduced, but those students selected under the higher standards will receive a larger measure of assistance, as the per capita stipend...
...possible to paint a car and turn it out within 24 hours. Even the Cadillac, which formerly took four to six weeks to paint, can now be finished in less than seven days. Such economies speed and cheapen production and at the same time hold inventories to a minimum...
...sale of the Artemus Ward Company follows close upon the announcement that the advertising company of which Barron Collier is president outbid the Artemus Ward Company for the Inter borough Lines advertising and vending nights. The terms of the contract provided a minimum payment for these rights of $30,090,000. The sum is to be divided over a period of 18 years...
Last week Luther C. Steward, national President of the Federation of Federal Employes, announced that at the coming annual convention (beginning Sept. 7 at Faneuil Hall, Boston) he will lay before his fellows a resolution urging Congress to fix $1,500 as the minimum salary for all Federal employees, which would make their salaries almost comparable to those paid by private industries. Said...