Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...combining the positions of dean of the Scholarship Committee and head of the Student Employment Office in the same person during the past year, the University has taken a wise and logical step. Recognition of the interrelationship between awarding scholarships and procuring employment has already led other universities to unite both offices under one man. Harvard is, therefore, following in a well-tried path...
With a view to the advantages which can be gained from the combination, Mr. Russell T. Sharpe has made several changes in the method of application for scholarships which promise to result in a more equitable distribution of available funds. He has composed an application blank which is at once simpler and more comprehensive than the old-one. In particular, the revised blank requires the names of two instructors and of directors of extra-curricular activities who know the applicant, rather than the single name of the man's tutor. Information from these persons and from personal interviews with...
Calling for a countrywide liberalizing justed stipend plan, President Conant of Scholarship programs along lines of the Harvard National Scholarship's ad-yesterday added another period to the exposition of his principles of American higher education...
...same time as we keep the selective machinery within the college, the examinations, etc., in running order, we must give more opportunity to unknown capabilities of leadership by enlarging our scholarship bases...
President Conant particularly urged that the State Universities share in this scholarship enlargement. "A State University," he said, "admittedly faces an entirely different situation from that confronting a privately supported university, and one must be cautious in arguing by analogy from one to the other. Nevertheless, I believe that one fundamental educational question confronts all the universities of this great democracy. A carefully administered scholarship system is an essential part of a truly democratic selective system of education...