Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Representatives of 150 colleges--including Harvard--will discuss the proposal for a clearing house to determine scholarship need at the Wednesday meeting of the College Entrance Examination Group in New York City, it was learned yesterday...
Because of this disparity--too much money to some students, too little to others--the scholarship office three years ago decided to junk the old rule and introduced instead a more probing system which incorporates more facts and less haphazard chance into the final stipend...
...Scholarship office--which used to employ credit checks on the return sheets but which since has given it up--finds that few parents object to the particular form. Approximately 300 fill out the blank each year, only about 10 complain, and one or two refuse to fill...
This total equals the amount of need, before any loan is made and before any form time employment is awarded. The committee then decides how much of the gap will be filled by scholarship funds...
...first year with this system, the committee found that most scholarships were either raised or lowered $200-300. As Monro says, "We moved up the stipends of the needy at the expense of those men relatively well off. How important is this? Terribly important, if we gave a very needy student, out of old habit a $600 scholarship when he really needs $800 it may be very hard for him indeed. It leads him perhaps, to work 25-30 hour's a weeks for wages, sacrificing academic work, extra-curricular activities, even his health in the desperate effort to cope...