Monday, Jan. 31, 1955
"Read All About It!"
Just 50 years had passed since the Boston Newsboys' Protective Union first thought up the idea: Why not help send one bright newsboy each year to Harvard? In 1906, the union started doing just that, and though it was disbanded in 1916, its Boston Newsboys' Scholarship Fund became a permanent part of Harvard. Last week, as it celebrated its Golden Anniversary, the fund could justly claim that once given a boost, a newsboy is hard to beat.
Of the 42 sent to Harvard, only one flunked out, three are now in the college. Of the graduates, five won master's degrees, three are M.D.s, three have Ph.D.s, two have LL.B.s. One owns a chemical company; one is a noted architect; another became secretary of the Law Society of Massachusetts; and two more--Charles Silin, of Tulane University, and Samuel Levine, a top heart specialist (TIME, Dec. 6)--are professors. Said Director John Munro of the Harvard Financial Aid Office: "No foundation or scholarship that I know can boast a better performance than that."
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