Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night he rides home in a company-owned car, for his company-owned house he pays a token $5 to $10 monthly rent, his wife buys her clothes on a company charge account, the family food comes from company cafeterias, his son goes to college on a company scholarship...
After waiting more than three months for a passport, Stephen Ramasodi, the 16-year-old South African Negro to whom Kent School in Connecticut had offered a scholarship (TIME, July 25), learned that his hopes for getting away from the land of apartheid were dashed. Said the Ministry of the Interior in a blunt telegram to Stephen's headmaster: "Application for passport refused." The philosophy behind the refusal, according to one government official: "Frankly, Stephen Ramasodi would be taught things he could never use when he came back to South Africa. Why should we let the boy be frustrated...
...himself in some sense noble, and Goya was born in one of the proudest Spanish regions: barren Aragon. His father, a gilder by trade, was too poor to provide much for his son's education, so Goya decamped for Madrid, twice tried and failed to get an art scholarship. In 1766, when he was 20, Goya turned up in Italy. According to legend, he was a troublesome tourist, cocky, stocky, amorous and quick to duel...
...Early Years: Born in McRae, Ga. (pop. 1,900), where his father ran the general store. As a boy he clerked in the store, took charge of the accounts when he was only 14. Graduated from the University of Georgia with honors in 1912 at 18, won a scholarship to Harvard's Graduate School of Business Administration, graduated there with distinction in 1914, earned enough money tutoring to travel in Europe. Served overseas as a captain in the Yankee Division in World War I, came home to marry Mary Davenport of Americus, Ga. in 1918. They have...
...heard the news, he knew that for one of his students it meant the opportunity of a lifetime. As a result of a visit that Author Alan (Cry, the Beloved Country) Paton had made while in the U.S., Kent School in Connecticut was offering for the first time a scholarship to a South African boy, and Father Huddleston found just the lad to take it. Last April he began to make the arrangements to send a 16-year-old Negro named Stephen Ramasodi off on his great adventure...