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Laurence Hurst, who received his undergraduate degree from Cambridge University in biology last year, is this year's winner of the Henry Scholarship, and he is currently studying the evolution of religion at Harvard. The Henry is awarded to one British subject each year who is allowed to choose to attend Harvard or Yale. The approximately $8000 award pays not only for tuition but is also designed to encourage recipients to socialize and travel. The winners are not allowed to work towards a degree, but apart from that, the only requirement is that the recipient write a paper decribing...
...recipient of the Joseph Hodges Memorial Choate Fellowship, is studying economics, even though he majored in math at Cambridge University's King's College. Presented in honor of a former president of the Harvard Club of New York who was ambassador to Great Britain, the Choate fellowship is awarded annually to one Cambridge student. The Harvard Club of New York has funded the award, which includes tuition and a monthly stipend, since its establishment...
Donald, a former chairman of the graduate program in the History of American Civilization, said he enjoyed a "mild celebration" upon receiving word of the award. He also received gifts of champagne and roses from his publishers...
...possibility of winning the award again, Donald said, "I think I can make room for another...
...hasn't forgotten to return an occasional book to the library? But Gustav Hasford may have overdone it. Hasford is an Academy Award nominee for his work in adapting his 1979 Viet Nam War novel, The Short-Timers, into Stanley Kubrick's film Full Metal Jacket. He was wanted last week by campus police at the California Polytechnic State University, who had discovered nearly 10,000 library books, including seven overdue from Cal Poly, in storage lockers Hasford rented in San Luis Obispo. The books came from libraries as far afield as Australia...