Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just 50 years had passed since the Boston Newsboys' Protective Union first thought up the idea: Why not help send one bright newsboy each year to Harvard? In 1906, the union started doing just that, and though it was disbanded in 1916, its Boston Newsboys' Scholarship Fund became a permanent part of Harvard. Last week, as it celebrated its Golden Anniversary, the fund could justly claim that once given a boost, a newsboy is hard to beat...
...chemical company; one is a noted architect; another became secretary of the Law Society of Massachusetts; and two more-Charles Silin, of Tulane University, and Samuel Levine, a top heart specialist (TIME, Dec. 6)-are professors. Said Director John Munro of the Harvard Financial Aid Office: "No foundation or scholarship that I know can boast a better performance than that...
...result), it also allowed athletes to repeat courses year after year. Football players got full training-table privileges each fall, while other athletes did not. They received a monthly $15 allowance for laundry. And though they numbered only 1.5% of the student body, they got 54% of all undergraduate scholarship funds...
...Under a "National Plan," G.M. will award 100 four-year scholarships a year to the graduates of private and public secondary schools in the U.S., Alaska and Hawaii. To get a scholarship, each student must take a competitive examination given by the Educational Testing Service of Princeton, N.J., must then pass review by a special panel of educators. Each private college and university picked by the students will also get the additional $500 to $800 grant...
Lower income bracket students would not gain much directly, however, for they can claim the 30 percent credit only on the part of their tuition not covered by scholarship...