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Founded in 1937 by the bequest of Mrs. Agnes Wahl Nieman, in memory of her husband, the founder of the Milwaukee Journal, "to promote and elevate the standards of journalism in the United States," the Fellowships give their recipients an annual stipend approximately equal to their salaries...
Robert M. Boyd '41, of New York City and Lowell House was awarded the Jacob Wendell Scholarship given annually to an outstanding scholar in the sophomore class. The prize scholarship, awarded regardless of financial status, carries a stipend of $500, and automatically makes the recipient a member of the society of previous winners who dine with the Wendell family and the President of Harvard...
...scholarships are good for two years with an annual stipend of 400 pounds...
According to the practice of this aid policy, awards go on the basis of outstanding ability and character, regardless of financial need. Carrying a maximum of $1,000 the first year and $1,200 each year thereafter, the stipend varies in each case, being sufficiently large, when necessary, to meet all of a student's expenses...
Harvard has innovated a plan looking to a greater assurance of higher educational opportunity for scholarship students. The plan is founded on the simple premise that the "stipend be adjusted to the financial needs of the individual." To this end a "sliding scale" based on past experience and a few pertinent economic facts has been adopted...