Gets,

In regard to your last paragraph, all I can say is "check the links." If you do a Google Books search of "Black Enterprise" and "West Point" you will see that during the early 1990s that West Point in fact did have scholarships and used the word. Like I wrote, in West Point's own ad it says that in one year that 1200 scholarships were given out. It also spells out what is meant by scholarship: free tuition and free room and board. In Carson's case we're talking about 45 years ago. So maybe they don't do it now, but in their own words, they did it then.

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&safe=off&tbm=bks&q=%22black+enterprise%22+%22west+point%22+scholarship&oq=%22black+enterprise%22+%22west+point%22+scholarship&gs_l=serp.12...15451.17788.0.27434.12.12.0.0.0.0.141.1096.0j9.9.0....0...1.1.64.serp..12.0.0.DAE8B3aH_Ak