Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many a company that would like to set up a scholarship fund either doesn't know how or doesn't think that its gift would be large enough to warrant the search needed to find deserving students. Last week Manhattan's Council for Financial Aid to Education-announced a made-to-order solution: a plan for corporations to contribute to a national scholarship commission, which would operate the biggest college-scholarship program ever set up. Said the council's president, Businessman-Educator Wilson Compton: "Since the council announced the opening of its New York offices last...
Also, Bender pointed out, under a new admission policy of visiting more schools, especially in the West, more applicants were to be expected. Presently, 95 percent of the students from west of the Mississippi receive scholarship...
...blue pin-striped suit came in and called off a name. The name adjusted the knot of his tie and went into a room down the hall where five other men in pin-striped suits sat around a table deciding who was to get the Big Scholarship. Each time someone was summoned the other flannels wished him luck. After he had left someone who knew him would tell of what a great guy he was and how intelligent and how much he had done at the school. They could do that, because there were two Scholarships to be given...
...while they were waiting for the next man to come back they played Do You Know and the fellow from Columbia cracked jokes and a pair from Harvard acted sufficiently intellectual for the others to tell one another that they thought those Harvard guys had the Scholarship sewed...
Four Harvard seniors, including the President of the Student Council, have won Rhodes Scholarships to the University of Oxford, the Scholarship Committee announced last night...