Word: fellowships
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After an M.A. from Harvard, Reischauer pursued his studies of the Far East under a fellowship from the Harvard-Yenching Institute, first in Paris, and then in China and Japan. The second World War was threatening when he returned to Harvard for his doctorate in 1939, and the U.S. Government soon called him to Washington, for the summer of 1941, as a Senior Research Analyst in the State Department. "I was writing little digests which they evidently liked," Reischauer explains. "Also, with another young fellow, I drew up a grand scheme for avoiding the war, but someone pigeon-holed...
...awards are part of the 64 fellowships distributed throughout the world by the Foundation this year in the fourth year of its Foreign Study and Research Fellowship program. The program is aimed at "increasing the corps of Americans trained to interpret and deal with problems relating to Asia, the near East, Africa, the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe...
...classic sense of detail and style. His prose is limpid. His manuscripts often have to wait years of careful research before he submits them to print. His research methods, although seemingly careless, have the same painstaking quality. After be graduated from Harvard in 1911, Wolfson went on a Sheldon Fellowship to Europe theoretically for pleasurable travel. He traveled alright, but from one library to another, Paris, Parma, Rome, and Cambridge, for a year and a half, reading copiously and taking detailed, index-type notes of what he read. He took his notes on tiny scraps of paper, often not marking...
...with wit and wind, fact and fancy, rancor and fellowship, democracy worked its special ferment in Great Britain. At the campaign's halfway mark, big things like the Big Four meeting, little things like a drop in the price of tea, bred confidence in Tory meeting rooms. The Liberal London News Chronicle reported that in "Labor committee room after committee room, there is the grey admission that half the workers are disheartened, the other half defeatist." There were, of course, Laborites who would deny it. But most of the betting was that unless the wind turned full about, Britain...
...Fund for the Advancement of Education has allocated more than $30,000,000 to the attainment of its major objectives. The largest single portion of the Fund's resources has been concentrated on the problem of improving the quality of teaching in secondary schools and colleges. Through two fellowship programs, the Fund has sponsored year-long leaves for more than 1200 selected high-school and college teachers, in order to encourage them to broaden their own knowledge and teaching experience...