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...scholarships bring a stipend of 400 pounds each year, for two or three years study, one of which may be spent outside Oxford. A candidate may represent Harvard either from Massachusetts, or from the state in which he legally resides. Further information may be found in the "Rhodes Scholarship Memorandum for 1931", to be had from F. W. Hunnewell '02, secretary to the Corporation, in University Hall, or from Professor Brinton at Dunster House...
Harvard men who get the degree with distinction, it is pointed out, would almost certainly be allowed to study for a higher degree. The Ph.D. degree could be earned with three years of good work, one of which could be spent at a continental university, with the stipend of 400 pounds continued. The trustees will attempt to keep the value of the scholarships at approximately $2000, regardless of the revalorizing of the pound sterling...
...ambition and a settled purpose in life," are George R. Koons, 14, of Chicago, Guy Barry, 15, of Portage, Mich., Robert Ernst Carroll, 14, of Fall River, Mass, and Campbell Gould, of Toledo. Unable otherwise to attend Culver (by the award's terms), they will receive an unusually generous stipend: $6,000 for a three-year course. Culver trustees will award in all twelve such scholarships, will watch closely the young students, for at Culver there is a "controlled situation": a uniformity of life, under military supervision, which they think will indicate the accuracy of the tests employed in spotting...
...sight during the sermon) to Boston's lavish 50?-per-Sunday. Average pay was about 15?. Concluding his article, Author Shafer whimsically proposed an organization of former pumpers. To his amazement, he was flooded by enthusiastic letters. Pumper Affleck wrote first, enclosing a check for 35?-his weekly stipend at pumping-as proposed membership fee. U. S. Senator James Couzens demanded to join; for two years he had pumped at the Presbyterian Church of Chatham, Ont. for $5 a year. Third charter member was Julius Rosenwald (now Grand Quint of the Chicago Loft) who shrewdly earned 25? a Sunday...
...maintaining too rigid an emphasis on financial need there is the danger of giving a color of charity to the award. For this reason there are a few scholarships awarded entirely on a prize basis regardless of need, although here the stipend is variable according to the recipient's financial condition. They are usually small in amount, however, and in no way endanger the opportunities of needy students. Outstanding achievements in studies is recognized also by the award of non-stipendiary or honorary scholarships to all students in the upper portion of the Dean's List...