Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small boys coasting down a hill, saw the final heat. Robert Ballard, 12, of White Plains, N. Y., got the checkered flag as he rolled across the finish line first to win the U. S. championship, a silver trophy, a diamond-set gold medal and a four-year scholarship to any State university he might select. He promptly announced that he would go to the University of Minnesota. Runner-up Kenneth Richardson, 12, of Detroit and John Sigmans, 12, of Bethlehem, Pa., who came in third, each won a Chevrolet coach which they are too young legally to operate. Coaster...
...that scholars and poets have had to go on. Laura Riding's A Trojan Ending, not to be confused with such mere literary romances as John Erskine's The Private Life of Helen of Troy, probes the dusty pile of Homeric legend with the findings of modern scholarship, discovers in it not a prehistoric frieze of barbarous "heroes" but a valuable prototype of the modern world...
With a layman's proverbial disregard for Biblical scholarship, I venture to place these words before you this afternoon torn from their context and ask you to read them with twentieth century eyes. If you will follow me in this I suggest you will have in hand an epitome of what you have been striving to attain during the last four years--an education...
Names of the sixteen winners of the New England private school scholarships are being revealed today by the scholarship committee. The stipends ranging from $100 to $500 are awarded to boys entering Harvard this fall from New England preparatory schools. Under the new ruling inaugurated this year scholarships are renewable during the four years if the student proves himself deserving...
...first time a competitive scholarship examination was used as the basis for the selection, and the prizes were not awarded as formerly merely on the recommendation of the headmasters. The recipients and their schools are as follows...