Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Graduate school admissions and fellowship applications reflect similar differences in outlook. That IBM-atmosphere they were rioting about is reflected in the stark simplicity and, perforated, EZ-to-process, pages of Berkeley's form. As for Harvard's GSAS form, its appearance would enthrall any student of the visual arts: at least five different kinds of type reflect the level of significance of various questions. Xeroxed and informally stapled at the corners, Wellesley's graduate fellowship form reflects the combination of casualness and warmth which characterizes afternoon teas at their best...
...differences in appearance of the various forms foreshadow the deeper contrasts of their content. For instance, the Wilson, a one-year fellowship for students who are seriously considering a career in college teaching, encourages future teachers in psychological as well as financial ways: there is a personal, strolling-together through-the-groves-of-academe quality to all of the Wilson forms. All correspondence comes from, and is to be addressed to, the Chairman of your Regional Committee--not to an anonymous committee...
...other hand, the Henry Fellowship's approach to your life and works is about as stiff as the paper on which the form is printed--no vague statements for them. While the Henry has a standard question about college activities and honors, it also includes a separate question about high school activities and interests. (Of course, the Henry also differs from most application in that it inquires about your preparatory--not secondary--school.) Perhaps they want to see if it's been all downhill after you made Arista. But if you've been secretly nursing your pride in your...
...Rotary Clubs, which require of their fellowship applicants a signed statement that one is not connected with any Communist organizations, reflect their preoccupations in a key question--"If you are awarded a Rotary Foundation Fellowship for International Understanding, how, specifically, do you think it will benefit you and others? (Limit response to 200 words...
Diametrically opposed to the Regional Chairman's warm camaraderie is the inhumane approach to the Marshall Fellowship forms. The Marshall asks for each recommendation in sextuplicate. Not even Harvard faculty members like to repeat their own words that many times. In any event, it is encouraging that at least one faculty member includes with his Marshall recommendation forms a recommendation for revising the Marshall forms...