Word: scholarship
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: and I will make of thee a great nation.'' What were Abraham's country and kindred like, and what sort of land did God show him? Modern scholarship, drawing on the latest findings of archaeology and textual research, is able to propose answers to those questions in vivid and imaginative detail. Most of the answers are pulled together in a new, smoothly written book for laymen: Abraham: His Heritage and Ours, by Boston Writer Dorothy B. Hill (Beacon Press...
Bond, delivering the Inglis Lectures on Secondary Education, asserted that the child of a professional worker has a thousand times better chance of receiving a scholarship than the child of a laborer...
...findings of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation for 1956, he stated, show that in those Southern states with segregated schools, not a single Negro child was among the scholarship winners. "I cannot believe," he said, "that there is no child of potential talent among the 10,000,000 Negro children of the South...
Bond suggested that social and cultural factors should be weighted against standardized test scores in determining recipients of scholarship awards. He argued that students of low economic background with high test scores have done better in college than those students of higher economic status with high test scores...
Phillips Brooks House, the United Fund, United Negro Service and Scholarship Fund, and UNESCO were voted preference. However, the group rejected an appeal, 8 to 5, for the Salzburg Seminar...