Word: stipends
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the advent of the Harvard National Scholarships, the scholarship stipend, once merely the difference between resources and expenses, became a bid for talent as college administrators started competing for future "Who's Who" candidates. Financial need became secondary during an abusive competition for future success. Like middle aged ladies at an auction, the schools matched bid against bid for promising prizes. Highly sought high school seniors could almost sit back and take their choice of the bids, while needier classmates, also college material, had all too often to be content with an acceptance but no stipend from a college...
...thermally controlled swimming pool, by and large these men receive only moderate compensation for their work. But is true that men entering banking upon completion of their studies make more in their first few years than men in any other field, excluding the professions. Still, a starting executive stipend of only 22,000 is hardly what the uninitiated would consider to be the average young banker's yearly income...
...programs, fellowships are available to seniors or first year graduate students who wish is to graduate school for work in Psychology, Sociology, Social Relations, Anthropology, or related fields. Students may attend either the University or any other post-graduate educational institution in the country. Awards bear a stipend of $1300 payable when the candidate is accepted by a graduate school...
...this is different. Las Vegas is the only gay place left in the world. This is how Paris used to be before the war." Marlene, 48, was preparing for a three-week engagement at the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas next month, for the record-breaking stipend of $90,000. Her opening night has been set for Dec. 15, an arrangement that thriftily divides her paydays into two tax years...
Because of this disparity--too much money to some students, too little to others--the scholarship office three years ago decided to junk the old rule and introduced instead a more probing system which incorporates more facts and less haphazard chance into the final stipend...