Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Spaulding, like some others whose packages have swung heavily over to jobs and loans rather than outright grants, says she feels "betrayed" because she originally chose to attend Harvard partly because of its attractive aid package. Last year the aid office-recommended she take out a loan in addition to the grant. She managed to do without it, but says if she had taken it. "I don't see how they expected me to borrow any more this year...
...poll of those going elsewhere, distributed this year for the first time and not yet fully analyzed, showed money was about twice as important a deterrent among Blacks as among the group as a whole, a statistic that may reflect the sharp drop in the proportion of Blacks who chose to enter this year's class. The flow of students to all-expenses-paid scholarships (such as the Morehead at Chapel Hill, which includes graduate school) was substantial: other students opted for six-year medical programs to ensure the same sort of security. And Fitzsimmons says at least two students...
...matches and itinerary for the tour were arranged through Lenny McCaigue, a colleague of Mabrey's at the national field hockey camp. She chose Ireland over other locations because, as she put it. "It was different. Most teams go to England and not many members of the Harvard team have been to Ireland...
...Nagy says, "As one Harvard colleague said to me, 'Frankly, its humiliating.' How's that?" He continues, "Actually, I loved it. My wife loved it. My in-laws loved it....I was very surprised; I think of myself as an inspiring person, but....I don't know why they chose me, and I think in this case, ignorance is bliss...
...lined up seven artists, including Manet and Whistler, and three writers, including Baudelaire, who had been Delacroix's admirers. Fantin-Latour then judiciously posed them beside a portrait of the great French Romantic painter. The composition is as simple as the relationships. Soyer, on the other hand, chose a much more difficult situation to compose. He selected ten realist artists for his Homage, including Edward Hopper, Jack Levine, Leonard Baskin, Reginald Marsh and himself. Also portrayed was Soyer's twin brother Moses, a lesser-known painter who died in 1974. Most of these men had little...