YALE TO GRANT LARGER TUITION SCHOLARSHIPS

New Haven, Conn., October 7.--A new scale of tuition scholarship stipends and a higher minimum standard of qualification for scholarship aid has been adopted, by Yale University and will be effective this year for incoming Freshmen, and next year for all undergraduates. Under the new scale students maintaining an average grade of 85 percent or above will receive $400 for the year and those maintaining an average grade of 75 to 84 percent inclusive will receive $300 for the year, which is the full amount of the tuition fee.

For some time past Yale has had three classes of tuition scholarships or scholarship loans, granted to students selected on the basis of high character, financial need and promise of leadership. The stipends, as determined by the student's scholarship average, varied from $300 a year to $180. Under the new plan the general criteria for scholarship aid remain unchanged but the minimum scholastic average qualifying a student for such assistance has been raised from 70 to 75. The number of individual scholarships thus available will under the new plan be reduced, but those students selected under the higher standards will receive a larger measure of assistance, as the per capita stipend has been materially increased.

Crawford Makes Statement

In commenting upon the new plan Albert Beecher Crawford, director of the University Bureau of Appointments, under whose direction the scholarship awards are made, said: "Scholarship aid and employment secured by the Bureau for students, have both increased approximately 450 percent in the past six years. The per capita benefit during that same period, due to higher costs and the great increase in students, has nevertheless barely held its own. With the existing economic conditions Yale must choose between helping more students to a degree inadequate for the majority, or assisting fewer and more highly selected students each to a greater degree.

"The new standard is not an unreasonable one to be expected of students receiving financial assistance from University funds. For example, the 108 Alumni Scholars have earned by self-support employment during the past academic year an average of $375 per man, exclusive of summer work; have taken an active part in curriculum activities of all kinds and have won social, literary, dramatic and athletic recognition; but at the same time have maintained a general scholastic average of 79, within one point of 'honors' and well above the 'quality credit' average of 75 now being adopted as the minimum scholastic qualification for University tuition aid.

"Many students, on the other hand, have been handicapped in their classroom work as a result of inadequate financial assistance and of the consequent necessity of spending front three to four hours a day in self-support. One reason why the average grade of the Alumni scholars is higher than that of scholarship recipients as a whale, may well be because of the markedly higher stipends, nearly $500, which Alumni scholars receive. It is hoped that the change in system will enable scholarship recipients to turn part of the time now taken up by self-support to more educationally advantageous purpose."