Atlanta Daily World

$100,000 Granted To Morehouse;
Ford Program To Be Extended

The Ford Foundation-sponsored program which Morehouse College instituted in September, 1952, for exceptional young men under 16½ years of age has been extended, thanks to a generous grant of $100,000 ($90,000 from the Ford Foundation and $10,000 from another source), President Benjamin E. Mays announced today.

Instead of permitting two groups (up to 30 in each group) of these "pre-induction" students to study on all-expense scholarships for two years, as originally planned, the increase in funds will permit an additional 30-man group to get two year's of college work done before reaching Army induction age, thus extending the operation of the program from four to six years.

The Fund for the advancement of Education (the Ford Foundation), under this plan, provides all-expense scholarships of $373 to $750 per student for the first two years of college work (available the second year on condition for student does well the first). The extended program also provides some funds for those students, who having done well the first two years under the program, will wish to complete their college training but lack sufficient money to pay for it. The Fund will give limited help to such men during their junior and senior years.

ADDITIONAL THIRTY

Under the original plan, Morehouse submitted 29 young men in September, 1952, with up to 30 scholarships available for the fall of 1953. The new arrangement will permit 30 more to enter in September, 1954, and an additional 30 in September, 1955.

The Ford scholarships are open to all high school students (male) who have completed the work of the 9th grade and who will be 16 1/2 years old or under at the time of registration at Morehouse. They must pass an examination administered by a representative of the college and must be recommended
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by the high school principals as possessing good character and showing promise. The new arrangement extends the age limit to 17 years. Those who are awarded the Ford scholarships are admitted to Morehouse with full freshman standing.

GROUP LAUDED

Officials said the 29 young men who were enrolled as freshmen at Morehouse last September under the Ford plan are doing a high quality of work despite the fact that they are younger than the other freshmen and despite the fact that they have not finished high school (facts which have significant implications for higher education in America.) The records of the first semester's work at Morehouse's 29 Ford students reveal the following grades among them: 32 A's, 71 B's, 50 C's, 5 D's, and only 2 F's.

Only three of these boys finished high school.

Morehouse is one of 12 American colleges approved by the Ford Foundation for this very special educational experiment. The others are the colleges of the following universities: Chicago, Columbia, Fisk, Louisville, Wisconsin and Yale; and the following colleges: Goucher, Lafayette, Oberlin and Frances Shimer.