Word: scholarshiped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Furthermore, in the Admission and Scholarship Newsletter, Bender questioned the meaningfulness of the statistics. "Are the measures we use for prediction, particularly College Board scores, drifting slightly so that a 650 score today is not as 'good' as a 650 four years ago? Or are the faculty raising their standard for grades, or failing to rise to the challenge of an abler student body?" he asked...
Mother sends him, at no little sacrifice, and he proves a spectacular student. Several years later he wins a scholarship to the university in Calcutta. He rushes home in tremendous excitement. "Mother, can I go?" And here begins the long, slow, exquisite resolution of the drama: the story of how the mother dies in order that Apu may live as he was meant to live. The mother gives and gives, the son takes and takes. The only thanks she gets are sulks, or at best indifference. Her heart bleeds, but she is wise enough to understand that in hurting...
Parents of National Merit Scholarship winners chose Harvard as "the best college in the United States" in a recent poll conducted by John L. Holland, director of research for the National Merit Scholarship Corporation...
Green's successor: Arkansas' Democratic Senator William Fulbright, 53, who was born in Missouri, went to Oxford with a Rhodes scholarship, served for two years as president of the University of Arkansas, was elected to the House in 1942 and to the Senate in 1944, was one of the 96 signers of the Southern manifesto attacking the 1954 Supreme Court decision on segregated schools. A longtime critic of Eisenhower Administration foreign policy, Bill Fulbright nonetheless wasted no time in getting in touch with State Secretary John Foster Dulles, promised his cooperation...
...concentrator in mathematics, Koch won both an Honorary National Scholarship from the College and a National Merit Scholarship...