Scholarships Offered Bay State Students

"To train highly promising young men for service to the nation," a free education at Harvard will be offered in open competition this spring to secondary school seniors in Massachusetts the University announced yesterday.

At least thirteen scholarships sufficiently large, if necessary, to pay a student's entire college expenses will be awarded in May, with February 20 as the dead-line for applications. At least three of these will be National Scholarships for students resident at the college with possible maximum stipends of $4,600 for the four-year course, and the remaining ten will be Nonresident Scholarships for students living at home in the Greater Boston, area with maximum stipends of $2,550 for the four years.

Awards Renewable

The best applicants are chosen regardless of their financial circumstances, University officials explained. Then the stipend is adjusted individually according to need, with a National Scholarship maximum of $1,000 in the first year and $1,200 annually there after for boys whose families cannot pay anything for their college education. Awards may be renewed for graduate study. The Non-resident Scholarship maximum is $600 in the freshman year and $650 each year thereafter.

"We believe that many boys of exceptional talent, but without financial resources, are unable to obtain specialized training at a time when the na- tion needs every possible skill and resource for the war effort," officials of the College said. "These scholarships, large enough to pay a student's entire college expenses if necessary, are designed to help remedy this situation."

The National Scholarships in Massachusetts are the same as those now offered in seventeen states in the Middle West, South, and Far West under the plan established by President Conant in 1934