Word: scholarshiped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Scholarship applications comprise nearly 50 per cent of the total--some 1,793 of the 3,636 applications. Henry pointed out that 141 more students filed financial statements this year than last, a number which corresponds almost exactly with the increase in total applications...
...increase in slow and carefully measured steps to an absolute maximum of another 100 students, if another dormitory and the cooperative house can quickly be provided," Jordan stated. If undergaduate enrollment exceeds 1,200, he said "every physical facility will be strained beyond efficient use" and the endowments in scholarship resources will be once more hopelessly inadequate...
...Harvard University, which must bag some $27,000,000 more by June to meet the $82,500,000 goal of its Program for Harvard College (TIME, Nov. 26, 1956), came the largest gift so far from an individual donor: $2,000,000 for scholarships. The anonymous giver, who went through Harvard on a scholarship, regards the huge sum, said President Nathan M. Pusey, as "only partial payment" for his education. To other men of parts who once had scholarships, Pusey observed that the college needs more such partial payments...
Listening to Professor Quaeritor, one almost imagines himself in Jivarro territory. Books on sex habits of the Mayas are alternated with relics of pre-Columban civilizations. Bamboo furniture decorates his office in Widener 5000. Quaeritor got a Harvard Scholarship, the regional jungle grant, and came to Harvard in 1912. Since then he has spent his life commuting between Cambridge and his beloved jungle...
...railroad worker in Washington, B.C.. Baylor learned his basketball playing settlement-house and playground ball ("I'd play anywhere to get a game"). When he graduated from high school in 1954, his marks were as bad as his basketball was good, but he landed a scholarship at tolerant College of Idaho. Freshman Baylor averaged 31 points a game, led the team to a 23-4 season, then transferred to Seattle University, where he really developed his talents. Last year Baylor trapped rebounds one-handed on the backboard, scored 32.5 points a game (second to Cincinnati's Oscar...