Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...College has already set aside scholarship funds to take care of their entire tuition expenses for a year...
...selected by a special Council committee to receive an American Field Service "traveling scholarship" for his work this year on the Combined Charities Drive, which included...
Waters, Fingers, Wells. Lilienthal seemed to be trying to make two points. One of them was that where no secret information was involved (and therefore no question of national security), no federal investigation of a federal scholarship holder was justified. Mixing his metaphors, Lilienthal declared: "Once you have passed the secrecy line, you are in the broad, tragic waters of the federal government's finger in education." His other point was that such bans, once begun, might be extended to "potentially subversive" students. Bureaucratic decisions "as to who is pure and who is not pure" would, he cried, "poison...
Glaring at a list of 500 AEC scholarship-holders, Michigan's Homer Ferguson demanded to be told how many Communists there were among them. "Perhaps as many as three," Lilienthal admitted. One of these, explained Dr. Shields Warren, AEC's director of biology and medicine, was "an outstanding student" named Isador Edelman. Edelman, 29, had applied for a fellowship at the University of California's Berkeley laboratory (where he would have been close to secret work), had been turned down because an FBI check disclosed "derogatory information." But because he "showed extraordinary promise," AEC granted...
...Harvard Teachers Union is opposed to any procedure which would deny students financial aid on the basis of their political beliefs and affiliations, and affirms its belief that scholarship holders should be selected on the basis of their scholarly competence and promise...