Congress Will Get Plan For Scholarship Funds

WASHINGTON, D.C., Dec. 14--A new and extensive scholarship program will probably be presented to Congress early next year, Buell Gallagher, a Department of Education official, predicted today.

Earl McGrath, Commissioner of Educations, stated that he has had Gallagher working on the program for some time Although the exact details of the plan have not been formulated, the concept and general outline of the system have been completed.

President Truman has long been in favor of a national scholarship plan. In 1949, he stated that a "soundly conceived Federal Scholarship program in our colleges and universities in a necessary step." He would like to see 4,000,00 national scholarship students in the universities by 1960.

The total fund for the proposed plan is not yet known, but a plan last year involved $300,000,000 and the new plan is expected to surpass this.

President Conant has indicated that a national scholarship plan is the best system of federal aid since it involves the least control of all federal aid to an education program. He is not sure just how well it will work here as opposed to the system of national scholarships presently being used in Australia.

President Conant has implied that he is more in favor of scholarships coming from private industry rather than from the government. In his "Education in a Divided World," Conant stated that he thought that the money would be well spent on two year colleges.