Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inaugurated this fall was one of President Conant's finest pet ideas: the National Scholarship Plan, financed by the bountiful Tercentenary Fund. Created two years ago, this fund established the roving professorships and national scholarships, the latter to be bestowed upon promising youths from every section of the country that they might have an opportunity for study at a great American university. Last year scholarships of one thousand dollars were made available to students from fifteen states, ten in the Middle West and five in the South and Far West. As soon as additional rescources are at hand, the plan...
...college will be asked at the time of registration to contribute to the budget of the Student Council. This budget is estimated to be $7,800, a figure reached through experience in former years, which represents roughly $5.00 from each student. The money is contributed to local charities, scholarship aides, and for maintenance expenses of the Council (which are surprisingly...
...dormitory fedder is not to be obtained by legitimate methods, the colleges are prepared to use gangster methods," John R. Tunis, a world's authority on tennis, charges in an article titled "Solling Scholarship Short" appearing in the current Scribners' magazine...
...worst features of this unhealthy and undignified competition for students, Tunis continues, is that many of the smaller colleges now are developing for better sales forces than teaching staffs. Nearly all have "recruiting agents," or "Directors of personnel" who receive flat commissions on each student brought in. Often small scholarships are offered as an inducement to get the student into the college and then bills are sent in for extra fees which exactly make up the amount of the scholarship...
...September 1 issue the CRIMSON published a list of 177 Freshman scholarship winners, in addition to the names of some of the Harvard Club award recipients. Thirty-one whose names appeared are holders of NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS...