Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hanfstaengl is performing a valuable service in scotching several misconceptions concerning his past charities to this university. The Crimson and all others who have in the past been ignorant of his $1500 contribution to the 1909 class fund regret that the well-calculated fanfare accompanying his recent scholarship offer has drowned out the more welcome generosity of former times...
...looks curiously like another concoction for publicity purposes. To make an issue of President Conant's accepting the reunion donation of the Class of 1909, to which the Nazi press chief had contributed, is mercly an attempt to fight back at Harvard for its refusal to accept his scholarship to the University of Munich. The class donation was a completely impersonal affair as far as President Conant was concerned, and the decision as to who was to contribute to it was up to the Class of 1909 alone. By no stretch of the imagination could the acceptance of this gift...
Except in rare instances where a man has a special claim to a restricted scholarship, students below the scholastic rating of Group III are completely ignored in awarding this type of aid. Such an arbitrary policy suggests the posibility that certain worthy individuals who get three B's and a C instead of a B average are being overlooked in favor of brain-merchants who are not so deserving in other ways. There are two factors which seem to indicate the desirability of granting scholarships to students in Group...
...infinite capacity for taking pains." If by adopting a less narrow-minded attitude towards his work, or taking a difficult course not in his field because he is interested in it, a man drops a group in his rating, that should be cause to bestow or continue a scholarship, rather than to refuse or rescind...
...Beta Kappa, Dr. Spencer brings to Ethiopia a brilliant record in scholarship and a formidable amount of practical experience. The task before him as adviser to the King of Kings will entail tenuous manipulation of high stakes, and if American war correspondents are right considerable fretting over climate. For Ethiopia nights, Dr. Spencer has purchased a silk hat. Should he be called on, Dr. Spencer could also play the cell in the cool of the evening, since he was an accomplished cellist at Grinnell, as well as an orator and vocalist...