Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dean Elder, upon formal approval by the Corporation this morning, will appear in Washington a week from today to be sworn in as administrator of the Graduate Fellowship division of the $80,000,000 national scholarship program, a Health, Education and Welfare official disclosed Saturday...
McDonald maintained that de-emphasis of scholarships would meet with resistance--"If you have a scholarship which dates back to the 17th century and you try to change the use of the funds, you have a nearly impossible legal task." He observed that if scholarships are made less desirable, the yearly $1 million earmarked for scholarships that the Financial Office depends upon might easily be lost...
Rather than press Smith's more than 30,000 alumnae for funds, Wright looks forward to resuming the work of scholarship. He points, however, to the success of his administration in wiping out Smith's deficit and tripling the endowment, and maintains that "I've done my share in money-raising...
...looking back over his ten-year administration at Smith, Wright reveals his bias in favor of scholarship, noting with the greatest satisfaction his extremely active role in attempting to bolster the College faculty. In the quest for the "ablest young people... we could find," Wright personally interviewed all prospective faculty members, always "trying to size people up--trying to determine whether they would make good teachers...
...careers in education behind him, Benjamin Wright prepares to begin his third. In so doing, he will be completing his own personal westward government that began with the migration from Cambridge to Northampton almost ten years ago. From scholarship to administration and back to scholarship again. Westward the course of empire...