Word: scholarshiped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...annual conference among college scholarship officials to be held here next month will be expanded this year to include every Ivy League college and M.I.T...
...Masters' plan becomes policy in 1960, only the more affluent graduate students will be able to live in the Houses, said Perkins, because "you have to keep all the cheaper rooms for undergraduates on scholarship...
...sense, the whole spectacle is absurd. If you view education as a human rather than an institutional enterprise, then it hardly matters where X is, so long as he is happy and gets along passably with his colleagues. No matter where he is, he will be able to promote scholarship by publishing articles on Chaucer and to promote education by unfolding the Canterbury tales to a few interested students...
Henry Krumb, a Brooklyn boy who studied at Columbia University's School of Mines, ran short of money in his senior year, 1898. If the school had not paid his tuition with a $200 scholarship, Krumb wrote later, "I would not have been a mining engineer." As things turned out, Columbia had good reason to congratulate itself on its openhandedness. Henry Krumb grew rich as an internationally famed mining consultant, and in particular as an authority on low-grade copper ore. He sought to repay his debt in many ways, served as a trustee from 1941-47, and gave...
...proud of the School of Mines," he wrote. "It is in order that Columbia will never consider abandoning its school that I am making these bequests." The gifts: $100,000 to be added to a scholarship fund already bearing his name; $500,000 for a Krumb chair of mining; about $3,000,000 to make the School of Mines "one of the most efficient, best-known and largest schools of its kind in the world, with a reputation second to none...