Education: Ingenuity Prize

In the broad field of U. S. education, youth is encouraged by many curious scholarships. The Princeton Club of New York annually sends a boy to Yale. Harvard gives special aid to smart youths named Murphy. The Chinese Government ships students to study in the U. S. from the proceeds of the Boxer Rebellion Indemnity. Last week Franklin David Hayes, 18, of North Brookfield, Mass., won the $500 scholarship offered at Worcester (Mass.) Polytechnic Institute for "Yankee ingenuity."

Ninth recipient of the Yankee Ingenuity Scholarship since it was founded (only for New Englanders) by...

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