Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Schlesinger, a History and Literature concentrator, won the Barrett Wendell Prize in 1936 and is an editor of the Advocate. Wells is the other holder of a Conant scholarship and concentrates in Chemistry. White, a member of the Student Union, majors in History...
...Even the education qualifications for civil servants in certain states have been removed as a result of the demagogic argument that any recognition of a difference in ability and training is 'undemocratic.' Any attempt to apply the selective principle in education, even with a generous scholarship policy, is branded as 'aristocratic,' while the uniform education of an undifferentiated mass of students is called democratic...
This plan, with the scholarship stipends being adjusted to the individual's need, will relieve at least ten students in each of the four classes of financial worries
...with castor oil, and hurled machine parts and small containers of acid at the tower. Inventor of the tower was a former professor of English at the University of Illinois, now a Fansteel attorney. Remembering the battle towers used in ancient siege operations he designed it, but with bad scholarship dubbed it "The Wooden Horse." * After more than an hour's bombardment from this ingenious device, the sit-downers fled from the plants, were allowed to escape, although warrants had been issued for their arrest...
...declared it encouraging "that the leading newspapers now have developed staffs capable of understanding and interpreting the work of the scholar and scientist," for "if knowledge is to be advanced in a democracy the leaders of opinion and the intelligent voters must be kept in touch with what scholarship and research really signify...