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Photograph of the Charles Hayden Memorial Scholarship certificate awarded to Robert A. Nelson, 1939-1940. Technology Review, December 1939, p. 73.

Original Caption: "To the first group of young men to win awards of the Charles Hayden Memorial Scholarships, J. Willard Hayden, President of the Hayden Foundation, presented certificates of award at a ceremony held in President Compton's office on November 7. These scholarships, established last year by the Hayden Foundation as a memorial to Charles Hayden, '90, are for worthy boys in the Boston area who are desirous of attending the Institute and who, by their previous records, show future promise in engineering and science. For these initial grants the Faculty Committee on Undergraduate Scholarships, under the chairmanship of Dean H. E. Lobdell, '17, selected twenty-six young men. They were addressed by Dr. Compton who in turn presented them to Mr. Hayden. The latter spoke briefly of his pleasure and hope that the recipients would profit by their opportunity to train at the Institute for their chosen careers."