Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These numbers have kept the Princeton graduate students quiet. "There haven't been any organized complaints by graduate students regarding teaching benefits, but there have been some concerns expressed that the University Fellowship, once taxes have been taken out, doesn't amount to very much," Schindwolf says...
...addition to the winners, Marc A. Bodnick of Massachusetts and Fidel A. Vargas, Jr. of California were named alternates. Either may receive a scholarship if a winner in his state declines the award, said Kristine Forsgard, fellowship director in the Office of Career Services, said yesterday...
Once disdained by upper-crust Protestants as "Holy Rollers," Assemblies worshipers are now on a holy roll. Combining lively worship, warm fellowship and soul-winning zeal, the group posted an astounding 23.6% increase in church attendance between 1979 and 1985, a period when those crustier Protestants were struggling to stem decline. John Vaughn, who tracks church growth from Missouri's Southwest Baptist University, reports that two-fifths of America's most rapidly growing congregations are in the Assemblies. The mammoth First Assembly in Phoenix, for instance, boasts the nation's biggest Sunday school (8,000 students) and Holy Week pageants...
...encourage recipients to socialize and travel. The winners are not allowed to work towards a degree, but apart from that, the only requirement is that the recipient write a paper decribing his experience at the end of the year. "Not bad for $8000," says Hurst. Next year, because his fellowship requires that he "put his feet on Commonwealth soil," he plans to go back to study towards a Ph.D. at Oxford...
...contrast, Alan M. Taylor, this year's recipient of the Joseph Hodges Memorial Choate Fellowship, is studying economics, even though he majored in math at Cambridge University's King's College. Presented in honor of a former president of the Harvard Club of New York who was ambassador to Great Britain, the Choate fellowship is awarded annually to one Cambridge student. The Harvard Club of New York has funded the award, which includes tuition and a monthly stipend, since its establishment...