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Unlike the Marshall scholarship, neither the Fiske nor the Harvard scholarship require applicants to have minimum grade point averages. The possession of "ambassadorial qualities" is important, as are the quality of the student's three-page essay and letters of recommendation, said selection committee member Robert N. Shapiro...
King said Carne had chosen his History and Literature concentration as a compromise among many fields in which he was knowledgeable. His achievements in high school included winning a Time Magazine essay contest with a paper on the effort to reunify East and West Germany...
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Perhaps it was natural that Japanese artists should return the compliment; anyhow it was inevitable, once the traditional isolation of Japan was broken by the Emperor Meiji's decree, in 1868, that "knowledge shall be sought throughout the world." As J. Thomas Rimer points out in a fascinating catalog essay to this show, the teaching of Western art in Meiji Tokyo began in 1876 mainly as a "scientific" discipline. But before long the bizarre techniques of the mysterious Occident developed their own momentum for Japanese artists, and particularly the Western way of depicting forms by smearing a kind of sticky...