Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...born 26 years ago. What Janos got from his father was not patriotism but a thirst for knowledge. He was a thin, blond boy whose Roman nose was never out of a book. He joined the Communist Party at the age of 16, and this got him a scholarship to Budapest University...
Aged 19 to 25, the 32 were among hundreds of young men picked by their colleges in October to make a bid for the ?1,200, two-year scholarship. Their 48 state selection boards studied their records and interviewed them, eventually whittled the number of candidates down to two nominees for each state. The 96 still in the running then had to go through the same process again before six-state district boards which picked the final 32. This year's crop includes five junior Phi Beta Kappas and 24 more who will get their keys by graduation...
Died. Dr. Frank Aydelotte, 76, longtime (1921-40) president of Swarthmore College, director (1939-47) of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N.J., and American secretary (1918-53) of the Rhodes scholarship program for Oxford University; after a cerebral thrombosis; in Princeton. Himself a Rhodes scholar ('05) from Indiana University, Frank Aydelotte forfeited part of his stipend by marrying (Cecil Rhodes stipulated that his scholars must be single), but completed his studies at Oxford, later revised and stiffened selection of the U.S.'s Rhodes scholars, while at Swarthmore instituted a system of independent studies for top students...
...started, he confessed, last summer. After his triumphant graduation from Lane Tech, he turned down two fine scholarship offers (U.C.L.A., Hamilton College) because he thought M.I.T. better fitted his talents. Well aware that his parents could not afford to pay the bill (tuition: $1,100 a year), he found a $60-a-week job with Western Electric and began saving his money. Soon he concluded that this job didn't fit his talents either, quit it and tried to land a better-paying one-and failed. Then he had a much brighter idea. "Maybe I wasn't thinking...
...reveals: "When it came to print The Waste Land as a little book ... it was discovered that the poem was inconveniently short, so I set to work to expand the notes, in order to provide a few more pages of printed matter . . . They became the remarkable exposition of bogus scholarship that is still on view today. I have sometimes thought of getting rid of these notes; but ... they have had almost greater popularity than the poem itself ... I regret having sent so many enquirers off on a wild goose chase after Tarot cards and the Holy Grail...