Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...response to recent proposals, the Student Council may drop out of the scholarship business and turn its Grants-in-Aid program over to the Financial Aid Center. Equipped with confidential statements and a broader view of student needs, the Center could make far better use of these funds. At present, the two bodies compete in the small grant field, where the Council's limited information opens Grants-in-Aid to the entrepreneur as well as the needy...
While there were evident disadvantages in an aid program administered by students, the small grants, alone in their field until several years ago, were valuable fillers in the scholarship program. These doles of ten or twenty dollars often provided students with the last defense against an overloaded term bill. But now that the Financial Aid Center offers the same service, the Council need no longer continue its program independently...
Jean Heather Marris Murray, daughter of a Scottish emigrant father and a South African mother, was born in Pretoria. An Oxford scholarship took her to England, where she worked as a free-lance journalist throughout World War II. The Fire-Raisers is her first novel but is written with a skill and confidence that make it close to the most impressive story yet about the South Africa of Malanism and apartheid...
...career combined scholarship with administrative work. An authority of eighteenth century English literature, Little was particularly interested in the work of David Garrick...
...Student Council's possible withdrawal from the scholarship business yesterday received enthusiastic approval from John U. Monro '34, Director of the College's financial aid center...