Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Formal Education. Johnny Groth has always been a good ballplayer, but until four years ago his game was football. At Chicago Latin School, Johnny was a triple-threat halfback, but never spent much time at baseball. The Navy nabbed him before he could decide which college football scholarship to accept, and sent him to the Great Lakes Naval Training Station...
...their letter grades) these grades average out to be about an 85. Yet, this man is placed in Rank Group IV. Another student gets four B-minuses, which is about an 81, and he ends up in Group III, which gives him Dean's List privileges. For borderline scholarship holders, who generally must not drop below Group III to keep their scholarship, this inconsistency can have unhappy consequences...
Perhaps even more important than the rank list unfairness is the way the system affects one's final record transcript. This transcript is one of the essential factors in admission to graduate schools which, like the Scholarship Committee, will not even consider men below a certain academic group. The important signs, plus and minus, are ruthlessly excised by the Registrar's 1BM machine so that the student's scholastic picture consists of a set of solitary alphabet noodles without the soup...
Provost Buck announced that scholarship funds will be set aside to cover tuition, and John W. Holt, Director of Student Employment, has guaranteed that jobs will be available for the students selected...
According to University rules this type of scholarship must come to at least $1800 in order to pay full tuition for three years. This will mean that every sophomore will have to pledge a minimum of $2 in order to raise the required amount...