Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...offending flag removed. Mboya himself kicked up a bit of a fuss by repeating the charges he recently made in London that a leading witness against the convicted Mau Mau leader, Jomo Kenyatta, had perjured himself in return for a British Colonial Office bribe of a two-year scholarship in England, free air travel, a grant to his family, and the guarantee of education for his two sons if he himself should be killed by the Mau Mau in reprisal. Next day the conference dutifully took up the cry: "Free Jomo Kenyatta...
BORN in Chester. Pa., the son of a railroad stationmaster, Magowan began selling his talent early. He prepped at Kent School on a scholarship, went on to Harvard, where he was elected an editor of the Crimson, became baseball manager, and earned $100 a week as a stringer for the Boston Globe and the New York Times...
...alumnus cannot offer more to a football player than he can to a regular candidate, since all admissions and scholarship decisions are made in University Hall. If "alumni recruiting" has had any major effect, it has been to interest the alumnus in all types of candidates and to stimulate scholarship fund-raising activity in the Harvard Clubs...
Beginning with the class of '63, the maximum National Merit Scholarship stipend for entering freshmen will be $1500, it was learned yesterday. The National Merit Corporation previously set no limit on awards, but granted as much money as the student required to attend the college of his choice...
Simultaneously, the Corporation eased its ruling forbidding colleges to award additional scholarship aid to winners. If a student receives all the aid he needs, the Corporation feels an offer of additional aid constitutes bribery. If standard financial measurements indicate a National Merit winner requires more than $1500 a year, however, the College will be allowed to make up the difference...