Sentence examples for first scholarships from inspiring English sources

They say Yale relied on slave-trading money for its first scholarships, endowed professorship and library endowment.

But three Yale scholars said in a research paper that the university relied on slave-trading money for its first scholarships, endowed professorship and library endowment.

Cole's family has raised more than $20,000 for a scholarship fund in his name at his high school, and this April the first scholarships -- $400 each to a male and female athlete -- will be awarded.

Similarly, the first scholarships were endowed by profits from a plantation worked by slaves in New England, and the scholarships, as well as a college, are named for the plantation owner George Berkeley.

Three Yale graduate students had recently published a detailed account of Yale's historic connections to slavery, showing that a slave owner had endowed the university's first scholarships and that Yale had taken slave-trading money for its first endowed professorship and one of its first libraries.

Tommy Amaker, then the coach at Michigan, gave Sullinger his first scholarship offer as an eighth grader.

Ashley, who played at Bishop O'Dowd High School in Oakland last year, received his first scholarship offer, from San Jose State, when he was a ninth grader.

He had won his first scholarship at the age of ten; he won his last in 1949, and left for Oxford the next year.

Logie, who was one of the first scholarship players in the university's history, said he wanted to find a player who could transform the program.

It was that pedigree that got the younger Sauer his first scholarship offer on Nov. 10, 1943, the day he was born.

In June, when Michael would have graduated, the school will present a graduating student with the first scholarship in his honor.