Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Foundation of a Radcliffe scholarship fund from the estate of the late Helen H. White was announced yesterday by President Jordan...
...great of $12,083 was left to the College "to establish a scholarship fund to be known as the Helen H. White scholarship, the income of which is to be used in aid" of needy girls...
...present rate of return on investments, the scholarship fund, President Jordan explained, will yield a yearly income...
Although there has been no action on this program by either President Truman or Congress, the President said in March that "a soundly conceived Federal scholarship program in our colleges and universities is a necessary step" in giving American youth the highest possible level of training. The ideal of getting those two million qualified people into colleges is obviously desirable, even though a project of this great scope would be bound to raise problems here and at almost every college in the country...
Improvement of our school system is undoubtedly the more pressing need, and should take precedence over any college scholarship program. But increasing the opportunity for all qualified students to go to college should be an important part of the Fair Deal educational program...