Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those close to Ivy football know that while there may not be athletic scholarships as such, it is only the rare high school star who cannot gain a scholarship to at least one of the schools in the League. For in the closed rooms of the Admissions offices, it is known that he stands a pretty good chance of getting a scholarship ahead of Editor Jones or even Shotstop Jones...
While the college actually runs a defecit in the cooperatives, the system is considered worthwhile as an economical means of providing scholarship aid while directly benefiting the cooperative's residents. Additional co-ops, at Radcliffe as well as perhaps at Harvard, may yet become the solution for part of the college's dormitory expansion program. But Mildred P. Sherman, Dean of College Relations, would like to see more brick dormitories--like the planned Ada Louise Comstock Hall--so that girls will not have to live on Massachusetts Avenue or in private homes...
...frighten their children, Cambridge mothers warn that the University will erect next door a monstrous barrack-like structure, devoid of Georgian dignity, a sore on the body collegiate, and refuge for ragged scholarship boys...
...politics, became a city commissioner and later Newark's director of public safety. As a schoolboy, young Bill helped the family income by delivering milk, making change for trolley riders. Graduating cum laude from University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, he won a scholarship to Harvard Law School, got his degree...
...Basso Christoff. The King of Bulgaria heard him sing 14 years ago and told him that it would redound to the glory of Bulgaria if he were to become famous as a singer throughout the world. To see that he did, the King gave the young man a royal scholarship, sent him to Italy for study and experience. Christoff fled to Salzburg when the Germans occupied Italy ("not wanting to get in any kind of a war"), later returned and applied for Italian citizenship and married an Italian girl. In 1946 Christoff made his Rome debut (as Colline...