Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...instill a desire" in undergraduates to attain academic distinction and ever-rising levels of intellectual achievement. Professor A.C. Hanford triumphantly wrote to Perry, "As a result of eight year's experience as a tutor, I am confident that the tutorial system has been responsible for increasing the standard of scholarship and for encouraging men to try for something more than a C mark...
...once the opportunity arose for the faculty to divorce themselves from this fraternity of scholarship, they did so. Bowersock said that in the wake of the graduate student-rich 1960s, Faculty members have come to view the phenomenon of a professor-led tutorial as "an abnormal practice." By the reforms, he added, he hopes to re-establish tutorial instruction as a normal Faculty activity...
Derrick D. Cephas '75, a third-year law student and a freshman proctor, plans to establish a scholarship fund to enable poor high school students from Maryland to participate in summer education programs...
...Eastern Shore region is a poor, rural area where most scholarship programs are unheard of," Cephas, a native of the area, said yesterday. "There is a tremendous untapped human resource down there, which is why I am convinced it will work," he added...
Cephas said one of his goals will be to ensure his scholarship will be added to, not deducted from, a student's current financial aid. "Very often, the financial aid offered is not enough, so the fund will provide a source of extra money that is now unavailable," he said...