Word: scholarship
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Funds from undisclosed sources have been appropriated for a Courtney Courtney Peabody memorial prize for scholarship to be awarded annually to the graduating senior considered "most fully endowed with those qualities best exemplified by Courtney Courtney Peabody '35." The gift of fifty dollars will be for books, no single volume of which may cost over ten cents...
LIFE'S program includes changes in "product, pricing and production." On the editorial side, said Editor in Chief Henry R. Luce, the LIFE of the '60s will be taking as its province "all things human, and revealing these things sometimes through the eye of highest scholarship, sometimes through the squint of humor, and always, we hope, through the eyes of the heart. In putting out this magazine, only our convictions must remain firm. All else-tradition, technique-are game for change...
...proposal by Dr. Dana L. Farnsworth, Director of the University Health Services, to provide a fund for scholarship students incurring "catastrophic" medical fees was endorsed unanimously last night by the Student Council at its final meeting of the term...
...bright U.S. high school graduates these days, scholarships pop up like gold nuggets in a lucky miner's pan. Last week from its headquarters in Evanston, Ill., the National Merit Scholarship Corp. announced the names of 850 winners-a record crop in the biggest, fastest growing privately supported scholarship program in U.S. history...
...launched four years ago, N.M.S. got 19 companies to agree to foot the college bills of deserving youngsters, started off by testing 56,000 students. This year N.M.S. tested 480,000 (32% of all U.S. high school seniors), has 87 sponsors ranging from Sears, Roebuck, which has financed 350 scholarships so far, to the Central Soya Co. Inc. with one. By the time the 1959 crop graduates from college, the companies will have given some $15 million to 3,000 National Merit scholars. And, beside the actual scholarship winners, 10,000 selected 1959 Merit finalists can count on aid from...