Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pledge of fellowship...
Although Taubes chose to spend his Rockefeller fellowship at Harvard for the past two years primarily because of the library, he insists that his main interest in life is not books, but people. His habit of always meeting a student or colleague for lunch and then talking for hours has caused friends to compare him to the Dostoyevsky characters who carry on coffee-shop dialogues for thirty pages...
When the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York awarded him a fellowship, Taubes realized he would have to learn English, so he bought a copy of the King James Bible. He knew the German and Greek Bibles so well that he was able to puzzle out the new language by studying the English text verse by verse. By the time he reached the Book of Revelation, he felt that the new language by studying the English text verse by verse. By he time he reached the Book of Relation, he felt that he knew English well enough...
...Rockefeller Foundation fellowship brought Taubes back to America in 1952, and he spent last year doing research in his "beloved stacks" at Widener. His wife is also studying at Harvard; she surprised some professors by becoming the first woman student in history to enroll at the Harvard Divinity School...
...dean received his A.B. degree magna cum laude from Stanford in 1931, and four years later graduated from Harvard Medical School cum laude. He held a research fellowship in surgery while interning at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and was appointed a Junior Fellow of Harvard's Society of Fellows...