Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This category often becomes more successful than scholarship-holders in later life," Graham claimed...
Siler also holds a Rhodes Scholarship and captains the varsity track team. He is chairman of the Winthrop House Committee and a member of the Crimson Key Society. Levin has served as president and vice-president of the Student Council. A Phi Beta Kappa member, he is on the Kirkland House Committee. Levin has also worked with the Social Service Committee of P.B.H...
...other views and who will refuse to consider facts that may threaten his doctrinal security, and the scholar who commits himself to views he considers correct at the time when they are under his scrutiny. To accept certain theological conclusions no more disqualifies a person from competent scholarship in this field than belief in democracy and voting in election time disqualifies a man from competent research in the field of Government...
Lack of such a commitment is no guarantee against prejudice and preconceived ideas. To have men of various shades and hues on its faculty seems a better way that a school can preserve free and unhampered scholarship with in its walls than to have men without color, whose preconceptions may, by this very fact, be far less obvious, and, therefore, more injurious to the pursuit of Veritas by the students under their tutelage. Marianka Fousek grDv...
Such a rise moreover would not have an entirely beneficial effect on the middle class pocketbook. Lower-middle class families are already resigned to making sacrifices and can also obtain scholarships; upper class families can absorb an additional bill without losing more than a few coupons. But the two-car family which has peculiar demands upon its savings gets caught in the pinch which has already hit the slightly less prosperous family. Unless both the scale and theory of scholarship aid are revised, financial aid officers are likely to continue looking askance at pleas from the so-called middle-middles...