Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...letter, Hofeld suggested "Perhaps the Council would like to consider appropriating twice the amount for this year's Demestic Scholarship to help compensate for last term's oversight...
...that U.S. educators have sounded since the war, few have commanded quite as much attention as: How can the nation make sure that its brightest high-school students will go on to college? Last year the U.S. got one answer with the formation of the most ambitious, privately supported scholarship program in history. Last week, from its headquarters in Evanston, Ill., the National Merit Scholarship Corp. announced the names of its first winners-the 556 members of the new elite who now bear the title National Merit Scholars...
When the corporation started in 1955 as a result of a study by the Ford Foundation, it had $500,000 from the Carnegie Corporation of New York for operating expenses and $10,000,000 from the foundation to be spent on scholarships over the next ten years. It also had $8,000,000 to match any scholarship set up by a private company within the program and $2,000,000 for administration. But the total amount would have supported only 167 scholarships a year. N.M.S. President John Marshall Stalnaker, former dean of students at Stanford, started a campaign...
...dishwasher, salad cook, spray painter and apprentice engineer in a local rubber factory. In his spare time he puttered about his school laboratory over such experiments as determining the nitrogen in wheat and recovering the tin from tin cans. Had it not been for his $2,000-a-year scholarship. Ted could have earned a degree only by going to school at night. Now he is studying to be a chemical engineer at M.I.T...
...effect on Hinduism. His neo-Vedantism, says Moses, "has newly interpreted the basic conceptions of Hinduism." Since the classic commentators of the 13th century and before, "we have not had anyone in the intervening centuries equal to this great Indian philosopher in depth of insight, profundity of scholarship, ease of illuminating exposition...