Word: stipends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...Membership brings with it the purely incidental privilege of drawing lots of the baseball clubs in the National and American Leagues. The member who happens to draw the club making the greatest number of runs for the week receives a prize of $5,00. In addition to this weekly stipend there are daily prizes...
Applications for the Charles and Julia Henry Fund Scholarships must be received by the secretary to the Corporation, University Hall, not later than Sunday, March 1. These scholarships, each of which will have an annual stipend of $500, will enable the holders to attend Oxford or Cambridge universities. Four American students will be appointed...