Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard-inspired formula for determining the financial need of scholarship applicants will go into nationwide operation this week. The College Scholarship Service has sent out manuals describing the new system of computation to 126 member colleges, in time for use on the classes...
...large increase in the number of college students. Just how big the increase will be is, however, uncertain. College enrollments will be effected by a number of more or less unpredictable factors: business conditions, draft and man power policies, social and economic pressures, the cost of higher education, scholarship opportunities, the difficulty of securing admission to college, etc. . . The increase may be much more than is generally predicted, or it may be much less, depending. But even if the common estimates of a doubling of the number of college students nationally by 1970 are accepted, it does not follow that...
...expand by 25 per cent do we increase the faculty, including full professors, by 25 per cent, and if so, how much will this cost with $400,000 now required to endow a chair? How much more scholarship endowment will be needed to maintain the present ratio of scholarship holders? At least two more Houses would be needed, at $5,000,000 a piece or more. Where do we put all these now Houses? Lamont is jammed now. Do we build another Lamont, and if so where do we put it? Do we build a second Indoor Athletics Building...
...possibilities of improving quality through absorbing a smaller percentage of additional recruits than the nation. (It has been shown, incidentally, that despite a doubling of college enrollment in recent years the average I.Q. has not fallen). Part of the improvement must be associated with the enlightened admission and scholarship policies carried out by the Conant-Buck and the Pusey-Bundy regimes. Messrs. Bender and Monro and their staffs deserve much credit for their administration of faculty policy...
...scholarship money available for graduate students, it is not $950,000, but only a little more than a third of this...