Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Religious Career: Ordained a priest (1946) of the Greek Orthodox Church. Continuing his studies on a scholarship awarded by the World Council of Churches to Boston University, he also served as a priest in Orthodox churches jn New England. While in the U.S. he was elected Bishop of Kition, and returned to Cyprus, where two years later he was elected archbishop...
...Things to All Men. At 33 he took his first lessons in Latin with a group of schoolboys, then moved on to Paris, center of European scholarship, to attend the College Saint-Barbe. There he gathered about him six of the most brilliant men, one of them Francis Xavier. From that small band grew Loyola's Society of Jesus, officially constituted six years later-in 1540-by Pope Paul III. Ignatius, ordained a priest only three years before the papal recognition, at last became a "general," for the Society of Jesus was set up like a military body. with...
...have always been very good to me," said Sammy gratefully. "They have even gone out and borrowed money from other people-just to pay me off." Sammy planned to put his fortune into trust for his wife, children and grandchildren. But after that, he announced, it will become a scholarship fund at the University of Missouri School of Journalism...
Urged on by cries of poverty and appeals to charity, higher education is on the march towards bigger and better scholarship programs. Congressmen are urging their fellows to establish a half-billion dollar fund for needy geniuses, corporations are exhorting their stockholders to approve national talent searches, and educators are reminding their former pupils that the alma mater is not yet perfect. In the midst of this nascent crusade, Harvard is fortunately able to assume a somewhat holier-than-thou attitude...
...responsible student" can get through Harvard, regardless of his family income. Nevertheless it seems that somewhat more ability, ambition, and responsibility are required to get through Harvard if one is insolvent than if one is the son of an oil baron. Although the rules are not strict, and the scholarship scions consider each case individually, the minimum standard of performance for a scholarship holder is normally Group IV, while the minimum for a non-scholarship student is Group...