Word: ripon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...science, B's in English, and he wants to be an electrical engineer. The state university fits his pocketbook, but his dream is M.I.T. He should try M.I.T. (though his only-average college board score in English is a hazard), and he should also try Wisconsin's Ripon College (enrollment: 600). He may feel happier at Ripon because it is smaller and less expensive. And it is one of the 17 colleges currently in M.I.T.'s "two-degree plan." After three years at Ripon, he can go on to M.I.T. for two years, emerge with...
...gifted student," says President Frederick Bolman Jr. of Pennsylvania's Franklin and Marshall College. The problem is the country's severe scholarship shortage (available: only $100 million for 690,000 needy students). And rich schools have the cash. President Fred 0. Pinkham of Wisconsin's Ripon College says bitterly: "We have lost any number of good students after offering them $800 scholarships. Harvard and Yale offered $2,500-they just bought...