Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among other suggestions, the council proposed a scholarship and fellowship program supported by private and public funds "to help more young people of ability acquire a higher education...
...Unfortunately, when we come to view America's vast system of tax-supported secondary education, we are bound, I fear, to admit that, with all it has to its credit, it is not fulfilling its duty to the mind ... Its greatest weakness has come from playing down academic scholarship ... in favor of universality at a level of intellectual aptitudes adjusted to a common denominator...
From more than 1800 applicants competing for the awards, the Freshman Scholarship Office selected less than a quarter...
Massachusetts led the list with 109 residents receiving scholarships. Twelve of these received National Scholarships, the highest award given by the College to incoming freshmen. Only one local student received a Gordon McKay National Scholarship, newly established for men interested in engineering science...
...program clean. He has not perverted it, as even many Ivy League colleges have done, into a vacuum pump, sucking at every high-school football field, swimming pool, and baseball diamond, specking to relieve athletic deficits by cheapening education. Now and again, there may be violations of the scholarship first policy, but whatever pressure exists for recruiting an athletic elite, one may be sure, does not come from University Hall. The result of the Provost's fabled drive for "mid-western virility" has thus been to broaden and improve the student body, to draw on the best and the most...