Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scholarship will be awarded by the Business School Alumni of Boston to a student entering the Business School this September, it was announced yesterday...
...addition to this scholarship, the Alumni Club will also make recommendations of candidates for the 40 Service Scholarships of $300 each which will be awarded by the School to entering students...
Sounding the cry for a fair scholarship policy, President Conant declared "we have had fortunate experience" with the "sliding scale National Scholarship" plan at Harvard. "It is perfectly evident to me," he said, "that at the college level, and at the advanced professional school stage, all the institutions of the country have been fishing in one small pond. They have been concerned, by and large, with a competition for the most promising youths in the income tax paying group; and at least three-quarters, or more probably 90 per cent, of the youths of the country...
There is no necessity to cheapen the cause by serialized articles on "Was Kindergarten Worth While?" but to the dignity of a rational report should be added some common denominator which will draw the sympathy and understanding of the taxpayers who ultimately must endorse any major scholarship program. The public can follow a logical argument, but it is sometimes shaky on the long words...
When, in the fall of 1936, the Graduate School of Education launched its program for the new degree of Master of Arts in Teaching, it took a positive step in the direction of elevating secondary school teaching standards. No one may justly disparage the intent of the school that "scholarship may be united with professional understanding and with personal fitness for teaching." But as a student in the school since the inauguration of the new program, I have a few criticisms and suggestions to offer...