Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...effort to assure the continuation of the German Exchange Scholarship program, the Student Council last night voted to appeal to the Combined Charities Drive for the use of its unallocated funds...
This fact has often been recognized, and the college has deplored the fact that it could not use the same academic criteria for scholarship and non-scholarship students, while pointing out that it had no money for more scholarships. This need no longer be the case...
...present, a student either gets what he "needs" to finance his education, or he gets nothing, and is told to finance it for himself. As a result, "once a bad student, always a bad student," for the student who has lost, or could not win, a scholarship must take on so much work that his chances of a achieving grace in Group IV are slim...
...despite this situation, the student holding a scholarship is supported in a state little short of luxury, forced to earn only $300 a summer, and take either a $300 job or loan during the academic year. When other deserving students are forced to earn or borrow their entire upkeep, it seems the College can ill-afford such generosity. While raising the amount of work and loans required of scholarship students would undoubtedly hurt their economic and intellectual status, the harm done would hardly be comparable to the benefits given the Group V or VI student who could receive at least...
Obviously the ideal solution would be enough scholarship funds to pay the full expenses of everybody who is admissible to the college and cannot pay his own bills. But lacking these resources, the University still needs to do some rethinking of outdated principles, and abolish the double standard of performance for solvent and insolvent students...