Word: fellowships
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Harvard will establish a fellowship fund for local public school teachers to study and teach at the Graduate School of Education as its gift to the community in honor of the College's 350th birthday, University officials announced yesterday...
...James Bryant Conant Fellowship Fund, with an initial endowment of $700,000, will provide for up to 6 year-long fellowships to be divided annually and equally between Boston and Cambridge public school teachers...
...were participating in a project of Habitat for Humanity, a Georgia-based outfit that builds homes for the poor. Carter has done previous Habitat stints in New York City, but this was the first such outing for Colson, now a born- again Christian and founder-head of Prison Fellowship Ministries. He finds the ex-President a "slave driver" who is "very similar to Richard Nixon in that respect, although for a different cause. This one doesn't end us up in jail -- just at hard labor...
...University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Meyer first used a computer as an investigative tool when he was a reporter for the Detroit Free Press, analyzing the demographics of blacks in Detroit's 1967 riots. He had previously worked on a computer while on a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard. Says Meyer: "Harvard had an IBM 7090, and I learned to apply it to social science." Meyer's findings on the riots helped the Free Press win a Pulitzer. It also inspired him to write Precision Journalism, a computer reporters' bible that came out in 1973. Among the first reporters...
There were more than 600 of them, a spirited sea of tuxedoes and dinner jackets and splendid organza gowns. Their weathered faces suggested that some fellowship of older folk, maybe retirees, had assembled in Washington's Hilton Hotel last week. They were, instead, veterans of what President Ronald Reagan called "a twilight war." What bonded them and brought them together was the storied Office of Strategic Services, the cloak-and-dagger agency that was born in World War II and led to the formation...