Word: stipends
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...earning $10,000 could generally afford to son to Harvard. The Scholarship Committee frowned on any applicants who listed their family income as high as $5,000 to $6,000. Now some scholarship students are in a bracket twice this high and still very much in need of their stipend. The higher cost of education partially shows itself in the record number of applications turned in last month for next years awards. About 1200 undergraduates want scholarships, and 1200 applicants for the class of '54 want financial aid along with their admission to the College. Both of these numbers...
Gamblers also add to the financial aid problem. These aren't scholarship students who lose their tuition money in reading period poker parties. They are the entering students who are refused scholarships but who come to Harvard anyway, hoping to make a good record and gain a stipend in their upperclass years. The College feels some obligation toward these men, and they always represent a group of worthy students in great need...
...earlier omnibus health plan but the substance is a full-scale compromise with the AMA's position. The AMA disliked the scholarship program, the administration changed the bill to give scholarships only after the supply of self-sufficient medical school applicants is exhausted; the AMA feared that the stipend paid to medical schools for students over and above their average enrollment would encourage "wildeat" schools, the administration cut that stipend to one-third of its original size. But the medical group, fearing the bull too much to eat the beef, refuses to accept the bill on the grounds of political...
...matter of an over-population of physicians, the AMA's criticism has somewhat better foundation. The present number of physicians, if distributed properly, could very easily supply the nation's medical needs. But, as the bill is written now, the scholarship plan will never stimulate medical enrollment; and the stipend paid schools for additional students can increase the body of physicians only in proportion to the population growth. Without this financial aid to the schools, the AMA can expect a decrease in quality if not in numbers of the profession whose exclusiveness it so jealously guards...
...measure that the AMA opposes most vigorously is the stipend paid to each medical school for the increase of enrollment. Not only do they think that the present fear of a doctor shortage is unwarranted but they are afraid that some schools might lower their standards in order to get more federal aid. "If the quality of medical attention is to be preserved," states an AMA spokesman in the original hearings on the omnibus health bill before the House sub-committee," the schools must be provided with sufficient funds to correct deficiencies in their present programs before they undertake...