Word: scholarship
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...villa and settled down to the serious business of his life: connoisseurship. Berenson's mind overleaped the customary barriers of 19th-century art criticism. He was not content merely to record, or appraise, or even interpret. Instead, he analyzed what he saw, and thus helped raise art scholarship to a new plane of exactitude. Berenson confirmed, by close study, that every artist's picturemaking is as personal as his handwriting. Even if the painter works in a strict tradition, his personal touch will appear in small things: the way he paints ear lobes, or hair, or crosshatches...
Hicks entered the College in 1919 as a scholarship student. A commuter for the first two years, he didn't even know that social clubs existed until many years after graduation. He found most of his social life in a Church's student group and in the Harvard Liberal Club...
Scores of musical contests (set up by foundations, wealthy individuals, schools) offer prizes that include cash fees, scholarships, performances, recordings, or expenses for study abroad. One of the classiest contenders in this musical prize ring is Ramiro Cortés. 21. Born in Dallas of Mexican parents, he took up music seriously when the conductor of his high-school choir took an interest in his compositions. His first prize was a Charles Ives scholarship to the Indian Hill Music Workshop, at Stockbridge, Mass., three summers...
Furious Flights. Other awards followed quickly: a scholarship to the Yale School of Music, a $150 National Federation...
Music Clubs prize for a string quartet. In 1953, Ramiro switched to the University of Southern California, the next semester won a tuition scholarship, the Harvey Gaul Prize, Philadelphia's Eurydice Chorus award and a $500 BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.) prize for a woodwind trio. He also set to work on an orchestral piece called Sinfonia Sacra, submitted it to the annual George Gershwin Memorial Contest. The judges: Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos, Musicologist Carleton Sprague Smith, Composers Aaron Copland, Morton Gould and Peter Mennin...