Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With military precision and the help of expanded studies in the humanities, U.S. service academies this year plucked a prize bag of Rhodes scholarships. The impetus: a sharp new drive at West Point and the Air Academy* to plunge bright graduates into the heady whirl of Britain's ancient Oxford University. The Air Academy won its first scholarship, and there were a record five for West Pointt (matched only by Harvard). Recalls one awed civilian competitor, who stepped into the exam ring with them: "They looked like tall glasses of cold milk...
...study-bedroom per student" ideal proposed last spring. Further deconversion will be necessary, certainly, in Mather Hall, which becomes part of Quincy House next year. Either Mather is deconverted and becomes more attractive to Quincy juniors and seniors, or it becomes a "dumping ground" for sophomores or for scholarship students attracted by lower prices...
Bender predicted that the loan fund, which has grown by 1000 per cent since 1949, "might double in the next ten years." Scholarship grants, he forecast, would increase to a lesser degree...
When he returned, Edel found that interest in James had increased considerably. His Depression scholarship was rewarded in the form of publishers' contracts and an offer to write a James biography. During this period, he taught at Princeton, Harvard Summer School, Indiana, and the University of Hawaii. He received a permanent appointment at N.Y.U...
...Freshman Council has soundly rejected a motion supporting President Pusey's action in freezing NDEA scholarship loans...