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Although the 20 percent minimum may be the ultimate cause of the financial aid problem, there are other causes which make it hard for the Scholarship Committee to keep over the 20 percent line that it has drawn for itself. In 1938 the proportion of undergraduates receiving scholarship help reached 22 percent, and in 1946 it was 26 percent. But this year, in order to keep the number of scholarship holders barely over 20 percent of the student body, the average amount of the stipends had to be lowered. Obviously other factors have arison that make it impossible...
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...
Such is the "major financial aid problem" which the College faces. Higher cost of education has made scholarship money less effective and has made more people need scholarships. Lower qualifying requirements make twice as many men eligible for scholarship award. The losing of the GI Bill means reliance solely on College funds, and numerous students who entered the College on a gamble will be forced to leave unless they get some kind...
...Center will make a special effort to provide more aid for students unable to take on part time jobs, such as athletes or these active in especially time-consuming extra-curricular activities...
...wish to thank the CRIMSON for this opportunity to make known the unhappy situation in which Signature has found itself, and to explain to the student body the necessity for Executive Board interference which some may consider offensive. This letter is in no respect an indictment of CRIMSON reporting. However, the question of a merger must be considered in relation to the entire recent history of the magazine and a full knowledge of its present financial situation. Joan Braverman '50, President, Radcliffe Student Government...