Word: fellowship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fester removed." The Peale disciple's day begins with mental pushups: 'This is going to be a fine day. I had a splendid night's sleep. I am glad that I am alive. First. I shall enjoy a good breakfast. Then I will have some happy fellowship with my loved ones before the day's work begins." One may take a deep breath before the mirror and say: "I am standing tall, I am believing tall." At the very least, this will "bring the organs of your body into natural position...
College administrators and graduate school admissions officers appear to be satisfied with grades as forecasters. Yet they insist they do not rely entirely on grades to judge people, saying that when they know someone competing for a fellowship or prize, grades become secondary to personal appraisal. They explain this apparent contradiction by arguing that only grades can work on a large scale, because of the idiosyncrasies of far-flung deans making recommendations...
...fine record of their graduates, even when measured in such strictly academic terms as high per cent of graduate school admissions or fellowship awards, does not establish the applicability of their system to large numbers of students. Swarthmore's the most thorough in its discard of grades, includes only about 200 students, and these are drawn from a group of 900 which is already about as highly selected as Harvard...
...organization called the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students, he would never have bothered to apply for Exeter at all. But young LaMar gradually found his bearings. Eventually he i) was elected senior class poet at Exeter, 2) graduated summa cum laude from Harvard, 3) won a fellowship to Cambridge University, 4) published short stories in the Atlantic Monthly, and is now on the way to finishing a novel...
...step from presenting Gilbert and Sullivan to presenting opera is a difficult and admirable one, and the Student Fellowship at the local Congregational Church deserves full credit for a generally successful production of A Tree on the Plains. For the folk opera, librettist Paul Horgan has fashioned a somewhat naive but effective story about farmers in the American Southwest, and the music by Ernst Bacon is simple, combining hymntunes, folk and popular styles into a pleasant conglomeration...