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Former scholarship holders may be asked to reimburse the University for aid they received while in College. F. Skiddy von Stade, Jr. '38, Chairman of the Committee on Scholarships, told the CRIMSON in an interview that he is now checking the value of this plan...
...Scholarship Office is also making a survey this year of National Scholarship holders since 1938. "The purpose of this survey," von Stade said, "is to see if the National Scholarship plan has been a success...
During van Stade's first years as Chairman, 700 men applied to Harvard for aid. Last year, von Stade's office was faced with 1,300 qualified applicants. Now that progressive income and inheritance taxes have just about eliminated private philanthropy on a large scale, the capital funds at von Stade's disposal have remained the same. During the war years, there was little demand for scholarships when the undergraduate body was predominantly military, and scholarship income was placed in a reserve fund. This fund has been augmenting current scholarship income since 1946, but it will be used up during...
...spite of this gloomy future, von Stade enjoys his work very much. "After being graduated from Harvard, I decided that I wanted to teach. I was an instructor at my old school in New Hampshire, St. Paul's, for a year. After that, I did a year of graduate work at the University of North Carolina and then returned to Harvard to work in Dean Hanford's office. I came here because I thought I would get more gratification out of working with students of college age. And I am tremendously interested in the ideal of this institution--to give...
Having turned down over 1,000 qualified scholarship applicants last year, von Stade is using every means possible to get more money. He is presently checking on the advisability of asking former scholarship holders to reimburse the University for the aid they received while in college. He asserts, "Without more funds, we will have to reduce the number of awards, particularly to entering freshmen. This reduction cannot help but affect adversely the all-round quality of the undergraduate body...