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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another problem is that some prizes have long since become dated. The award of approximately $70 for the "best essay on the life, work, or interests of John Ruskin" attracted only two entrants last year. When the award was instituted over 20 years ago, that English author and critic was much more highly regarded than he is today...
There are between two and three million Americans who could be in college right now if they had the money. So says Earl McGrath, federal Commissioner of Education, in an appeal for a $300,000,000 program of scholarship aid by the U. S. government to worthy students of college...
...been no action on this program by either President Truman or Congress, the President said in March that "a soundly conceived Federal scholarship program in our colleges and universities is a necessary step" in giving American youth the highest possible level of training. The ideal of getting those two million qualified people into colleges is obviously desirable, even though a project of this great scope would be bound to raise problems here and at almost every college in the country...
...President Truman proposes a measure of this sort to Congress, and there is a strong likelihood that he will, the legislators will be faced with two bills for improvement of education, each tagged at $300,000,000. The other is the program of federal aid to states for schools, which may emerge from committee as the Barden Bill or something less controversial...
Before more than 100 members of the two officers' training corps units, medals were awarded by Dean Bender to: Air Force--Cadet Lt. Col. Donald T. Fox, Jr. '51, Cadet Captain Gerald K. Vogel '50, Cadet First Lieut. Howard D. Allen '50. Cadet First Lieut. Francis A. Lavelle '50, and Cadet First Lieut Roger B. Salomon '50; Field Artillery--Cadet Major Charles R. Heller '50, Cadet Major Leland L. Fellows '51, Cadet Captain Horace L. Bowman '50, and Cadet First Lieut, Arthur M. Clarke...