Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Presidents Angell, Dodds, and Butler of Yale, Princeton, and Columbia issued statements last night expressing their complete agreement with and confidence in the new examinations which all Freshmen scholarship applicants at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia will have to take, starting this spring...
President Harold W. Dodds, of Princeton, in announcing that his college would cooperate in the plan, stressed the time which would be saved in awarding scholarships to new men and remarked that "successful operation of the new plan of the College Entrance Examination Board will help towards an improved basis of scholarship awards to Freshmen, one of the present-day problems in college administration...
...prime value of scholastic aptitude tests is not so much as records of past achievement, but rather as barometers for predicting future worth. With all sorts and conditions of people from which to choose, the scholarship committee cannot possibly draw up examinations that will suit the scholastic training and social and environmental background of candidates all over the country. But the aptitude questions, ranging from multiplication tables to Catherine of Aragon's domestic life, by their very broadness have demonstrated their value as indicators of potential intellectual prowess...
...ultimate goal of the national scholarships is to reach students from every state in the Union. President Hutchins assumes that the Conant plan merely attempts to break down the obstacle of a prospective student's geographical remoteness from Harvard. It is far more than that, and based upon a much weightier conviction. In President Conant's own words, "The belief which underlies the entire project is that there will always be a few young men of exceptional promise, but without adequate means of paying for a university education, to whom it is well worth society's while to furnish every...
...idea of the magazine is to compile the latest information on mass opinion, the "controlling but obscure force" from the fields of scholarship, government, business, advertising, public relations, press, radio, and motion pictures...