Word: fellowships
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Every year since 1938, about a dozen newspapermen have come to Harvard and have been paid to do whatever they want under the Nieman Fellowship program. During their stay they have the run of the College and the professional schools. Faculty and administrators cater respectfully to their desires. In June they return to their jobs, hopefully taking with them some knowledge that will make them better journalists...
Last year, on the basis of his performance on the test, Howe was awarded the William Lowell Putnam fellowship for a year of graduate study in mathematics at Harvard. This year's winner will be announced sometime during the spring...
...statements by mainstream churches-such as the United Presbyterians' proposed "Confession of 1967," which, they claim, reduces the Bible to a vehicle of God's Word rather than the Word itself. They are equally wary of ecumenism, on the ground that churches should be united by a fellowship of faith rather than by organizational merger. Even more abhorrent are the radical ideas of the "death of God" thinkers which, they say, seek to make God acceptable to man rather than try to bring man back to God. "We are not ready to be His pallbearers yet," snaps...
...something of a radical. He has preached and picketed on behalf of civil rights. Earlier this year his Jesuit superiors reprimanded him for reciting more of the Mass in English than the council's liturgical reforms currently permit. A pacifist, he is a sponsor of the Catholic Peace Fellowship. Last October he joined Rabbi Abraham J. Heschel, the leading theologian of Conservative Judaism, and Lutheran Pastor Richard John Neuhaus of Brooklyn, as a co-chairman of Clergy Concerned, whose aim is to question the morality of U.S. action in the Viet Nam war. He is not alone in suffering...
...course, if the people who are recommending you do check the most flattering boxes on the grid and your essays do indeed place your life and interests in the top 1-2 per cent, you may get into graduate school and/or win the fellowship. But don't rejoice prematurely--remember, the army sends out its congratulatory letters before you even bother to fill out the forms