Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Merely providing a placement system is not enough. The Committee realizes that no incentive can ever prod the student who is so grade-conscious that his intellectual curiosity is dead. But it has sensibly asked that grade requirements for scholarship holders electing advanced courses be reduced. In the past, the fear of low grades and a resulting reduction of scholarship stipends has been a main factor in keeping these men from taking courses that tax the limits of their abilities...
...addition to expanding the principles of round-robin competition, the new league affirmed its ban on spring football practice and athletic scholarship, thereby substantially keeping intact an informal president's pact drawn up in 1945 to prevent commercialization in Ivy college athletics...
...Scholarships will be larger than in past years, but will be granted to fewer students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences next year in order not to "strangle" the small scholarship holder, Dean Francis M. Rogers announced yesterday...
Rogers said that the increase in the size of grants will be made to compensate for a Committee on Scholarships ruling that prohibits all scholarship holders from prohibits all scholarship holders from working more than ten hours a week. Under this ruling, students with small scholarships have little means of supplementing them, the dean explained supplementing them the dean explained...
...College Boards pass the Monro proposal, the scholarship will return to its prime purpose. Designed to fill the gap between the student's available funds and his expenses, the stipend will no longer be used as lure, often forcing a man to make a decision based on financial preference alone. And the colleges, in awarding more scholarship to more students will benefit by using what has now become wasted money. Monro's clearing house will stop the scrambling and ensure that the successful applicant will always get enough, but never more than enough...