Word: fellowships
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...Harvard. On two specific votes, the Faculty accepted plans for setting up a degree program in Afro-American Studies and creating a committee to revise African studies. The Faculty then voted to approve "in principle" all the other Rosovsky recommendations--including plans for a black student center, a fellowship program for black graduate students, and a student-Faculty "search" committee that would try to find Faculty members for the Afro-American Studies department by next fall. Most of Rosovsky's proposals met little resistance, but several Faculty members said they were concerned about the "separatist" implications of the black student...
Seances and Psi. Stockwood is not the only Anglican clergyman to dabble in telepathy, seances and other "psi" phenomena. He happens to be vice president of a group called the Churches Fellowship for Psychical and Spiritual Studies, whose patrons include 20 bishops of the Anglican Communion. One of the fellowship's basic concerns is with what it considers a "highly agnostic" trend: the diminution of belief in the traditional Christian doctrine of life after death. Not only does such skepticism deny comfort to the kin of the dead, says the fellowship, but it raises profound questions about "what...
Lately the psychical enthusiasts have been asking these questions of the church itself. In a letter to last year's Lambeth Conference, the fellowship petitioned the church to reopen a 1937 inquiry into spiritualism undertaken under the auspices of the Archbishops of Canterbury and York. Although the report was never officially published, it held that there were enough instances of inexplicable psychic events for Anglican clergymen to "keep in touch with groups of intelligent persons who believe in spiritualism." The fellowship also urged the addition of parapsychology to the curriculum of Anglican seminaries. In this way, the letter said...
...traveled in West Africa in 1959-61 on a Ford Foundation fellowship, and in 1964-65 was a visiting professor at the University of Ghana. He has been a research associate in the Center for International Affairs since 1961, and was a lecturer in Government from 1963 until 1967, when he became an assistant professor of Government...
...Corporation could not take a loss on investments and rentals, Calkins responded with an artful practical problem. You want us to spend more money in the ghettoes? Then we will have to cut down somewhere else, like in the new Afro-American Studies program or in the new fellowship for black graduate students...