Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Henry said that the decrease was due to the drop in scholarship applicants. The number of applicants willing to pay their own way remained about the same as last year. Henry speculated that "perhaps people have more money," or that the ten dollar fee discourages multiple scholarship applications. The number of candidates from prep schools was about constant, he added, with the slight drop of applications from Exeter and Andover from last year offset by gains from other schools...
Besides the ten dollar application fee, two other reasons were advanced by a recent issue of an "Admission and Scholarship Newsletter" for last year's decrease of applications to the College...
Education: Scholarship boy who got through to his B.A. by selling sheet music and singing songs (most spc-cessful: Ramona) on the quais of Le Havre; became lycéee (high school) professor of English and Latin at industrial Arras...
...there were times when Nathaniel LaMar of Atlanta, Ga. thought he would never make it. The son of a widowed schoolteacher, he had gone to a Negro elementary school that left him unprepared for the stiff competition at Exeter. Had it not been for an organization called the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students, he would never have bothered to apply for Exeter at all. But young LaMar gradually found his bearings. Eventually he i) was elected senior class poet at Exeter, 2) graduated summa cum laude from Harvard, 3) won a fellowship to Cambridge University, 4) published...
...Lind: Eliot; Varsity swimming; PBH; Fr. and House golf; Nat'l scholarship...