Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Words. Runner-up Caroline Littlejohn, who hopes to use her scholarship at Barnard, had not been so confident. She is at the top of her class in Classen High in Oklahoma City, but she was worried about missing two weeks of school for the trip and not sure what the judges would think of her essay, "Beginning Researches in the Mathematical Theory of Relativity and Its Applications." When she heard her name called and stepped to the mike she found just two words for her fellow scientists: "Oh heavens...
...diamond ring and a $1,000 star sapphire; a $2,500 diamond watch; a custom-built $1,000 kitchen ("If it's more modern than mine, I'll take it"); a $425 record library; an ermine jacket, hat and muff; a one-year scholarship to the Berkshire Hills girls school; a $2,850 trip to Paris and Monte Carlo ("I'd rather go somewheres else-like California...
...Scholarship. In Bristol, England, the children's officer of the city council pointed out that it costs more to send a boy to a state reformatory than to Eton...
Provost Buck has announced that scholarship funds will be allocated to pay the tuition for the DP's; John W. Holt, Director of Student Employment, has guaranteed them jobs; and the Student Council has turned over $1000 and the Liberal Union about $100 to swell the general expenses...
...recommend to the Administration that scholarship stipends be raised and funds allocated so that no student be forced to leave College through the tuition rise alone...