Van Dyne Scholarship

ALTHOUGH financial aid at Dartmouth has increased in recent years, the College continues to work toward a stronger program, to the point where perhaps 25% of the student body can be scholarship men. A new development is Dartmouth's "Corporation Plan" whereby participants who help to underwrite the scholarship program may call upon the College for specific assistance in industrial research. The full facilities of Baker Library and the specialized aid of Tuck School and Thayer School also are available.

Under this plan, Dartmouth has received a four-year $3200 scholarship from the Van Dyne Oil Company of Troy, Pa., of which Henry B. Van Dyne '12 is president. In presenting the scholarship, Mr. Van Dyne asked that preference be given to a qualified young man living within a 100-mile radius of Elmira, N. Y., the area within which the operations of the Van Dyne Oil Company are conducted. The first recipient of the $800-a-year award is William Manning III '58 of Elmira, N. Y.

In presenting the Van Dyne Oil Company Scholarship to Dartmouth, Mr. Van Dyne stated that he is a firm believer "in the desirability of corporate aid to educational institutions ... such as Dartmouth, which have stood the test of time as leading educational counterparts to the private corporation in the American free enterprise system." To meet rising costs the independent college cannot greatly increase tuition and other student charges, he pointed out, "without closing the doors to worthy and well-qualified young men unable to meet them."