Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Also on the Combined Charities list next spring will be Phillips Brooks House, the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students, World University Services, and the American Friends Service Committee...
...temptation changed to a passion, and Shapley promptly published in "Popular Astronomy," won a scholarship to Princeton, and dashed through his Ph.D. in a year. His brilliant work attracted the Mr. Wilson Observatory staff, on which he served from 1914 to 1921. "During this period," Shapley recalls, "I developed my ideas for measuring the vast distance of the Universe." His theory prompted fellow astronomers to call him a "modern Copernicus" for the discovery that the sun is at the rim of the Milky Way Galaxy and not near the center. "I've been attacked for lots of reasons," Shapley remarks...
...until it was too dark to see the goal posts. After the football season, Bobby played basketball; one spring he pitched the local American Legion baseball team to the state championship. By the time he entered the University of Texas in 1944, he was good enough for a baseball scholarship. In four years at Texas he never lost a conference baseball game...
...finish so far in the black that it cannot use these additional funds. But it is difficult to imagine another department of the University that could better spend the money now allocated to it. It is even more serious to consider jeopardizing the worth of a $650,000 scholarship program to save one-twentieth of that amount...
...order to continue to attract a highly qualified undergraduate body and protect its scholarship program, the administration should maintain its present policy. Yale, however, which has pushed the plan, insists that Harvard and Princeton go along. Operating under a million dollar deficit and an admissions policy that draws 60 percent of its undergraduates from preparatory schools, Yale expects to benefit from the fees. Harvard is neither plagued by so serious deficit worries nor committed to a 60-40 ratio...