Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...announcing the campaign, Dean Griswold listed as its objectives "comfortable living quarters to free students from dependence on expensive, over-crowded, and deteriorating Cambridge rooming houses; increased scholarship funds to offset increased tuition fees; teaching fellows to aid in providing more group and individual student work; funds to facilitate individual Faculty research and to make possible staff investigations of important large-scale problems; and funds to relieve student tuitions from having to bear the whole burden which increased costs are casting on the Law Library...
...Miss Cambridge, Anne Spencer is eligible for the giant contest later this month to choose the miss Red Feather of 1948. The winner of the finals receives a scholarship and a screen test...
...East last month to take a scholarship at New York's Sarah Lawrence College, Florence Iva Begay, a Navaho girl, had gotten the Jim Crow treatment in a bus near Amarillo, Tex. Shocked and scared, she went back to the reservation (TIME, Oct. 11). Last week, as she was playing the piano for a service in a little Protestant church in Flagstaff, Ariz., an invitation arrived. How would she like to fly to the big Tri-State Fair at Amarillo, with all expenses paid? Amarillo wanted to "open its collective arms and heart" to Florence, so that she would...
...years, Florence Iva Begay, a shy, dark-eyed Navajo, had never strayed more than 100 miles from the reservation at Window Rock, Arizona. Graduating as valedictorian of her high-school class at Flagstaff, she became the first to win a new $2,000 annual scholarship for Indian girls at New York's progressive Sarah Lawrence College. Florence wanted to become a doctor, so that she could go back to the reservation to help cure her people of tuberculosis and trachoma. Last week Florence was home again, without getting to New York. She had tasted white man's poison...
...word is, don't pass up applying for a Rhodes Scholarship just because you're not a group one man. You've got to have pretty good grades all right, but they aren't any more important than being active in extra-curricular affaire, being able to think well on you feet, and being interested in athletics. If you can do all of these things, and are group three up, you are the ideal, well-rounded, red-blodded Rhodes Scholar...