Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gift to establish a special professorship for heart diseases, to be named for Harvard Heart Specialist Samuel A. Levine. Dr. Levine. 63, the son of Polish immigrants, peddled newspapers in downtown Boston as a child, went through Harvard College and Medical School (Class of '14) on a scholarship from the Boston Newsboys' Union. A leading authority on coronary thrombosis, Levine is Merrill's close friend and physician, is credited by Merrill with saving his life when the banker had a heart attack...
...senior class of 450 in a wealthy suburban high school was delighted by the fact that it had been offered $250,000 in college scholarships. But the school's guidance counselor was disgusted: "We didn't need a single dollar." Why had so much been offered to such a well-to-do few? The fact is, says President John Perkins of the University of Delaware, "something akin to a scholarship racket has evolved." In their blind competition for promising freshmen, many colleges and universities are unwittingly giving aid to students well able to pay their...
Last week a new organization called the College Scholarship Service was working on a plan that may change all that. An affiliate of the College Entrance Examination Board, the service has 92 members willing to cooperate on a new experiment in,, awarding scholarships. From now on, an applicant for a scholarship from a member campus will get a standard form asking him and his family every detail about finances down to the family car. The service will send copies of the form to the various campuses to which the student applied. Armed with this common information, the campuses will then...
...time, the service thinks that it will do much to help colleges and universities untangle competing scholarship procedures. Furthermore, says Director John Monro of Harvard's Financial Aid Center, the service may cure another evil: "Colleges have tended to educate the public with the idea that scholarships are prizes. Getting one is like having a winning ticket in a sweepstakes. We've been putting money into guys who don't need it, and not conserving it for those...
Salzburg Seminar and the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students, both on the solicitation list this year, are spending over ten percent for campaign expenses. Last year the Negro student fund spent approximately 60 percent for overhead, while Salzburg Seminar used about half of its income for operating expenditures...