Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...friend to have, not only for Isabella Stewart Gardner but for Bernard Berenson. It was due to Norton's suggestion that Belle Gardner started collecting rare books and manuscripts instead of gowns and jewels, and it was Norton who got a group of wealthy Bostonians to finance a traveling fellowship for Berenson when he lost the Parker Fellowship in 1887 to another Harvard student...
...feeder prep school, Lawrenceville. He worked his way through Princeton selling football tickets, graduated in 1940 with the school's top honor prize. After earning his doctorate (thesis: "The Imagery of Sophocles' Antigone") at Princeton, he joined the faculty and became head of the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Program, which aids future college teachers. When Princeton's trustees began looking for a new president to replace Dr. Harold W. Dodds, they decided they had only two choices: Goheen and McGeorge Bundy. Goheen got the nod in 1957, becoming, at 37, the youngest Princeton president since...
...past. In 1959, Robert Frank published a book of photographs called The Americans, and Jack Kerouac wrote the introduction. Frank said he wanted to have Kerouac write the introduction because "he loved America very much and he was very desperate." Frank's photographs, taken 1955-57 on a Guggenheim fellowship, showed the American people at their most desperate...
Rosenblatt, recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for Humanities, will continue work on his book in New York and possibly Ireland. He was nominated for the prize by the Harvard English Department...
...point that he serves visitors sandwiches for lunch in his office. He professes little interest in making more money. "What can I do with it?" he asks, echoing the concern of the confused generation. "Eat four meals a day?" Instead, Vittert hopes to win a White House fellowship to work as a Cabinet aide and start a new career of helping people through politics. "As you can see," he says, "I'm really naive and idealistic...