Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...form, the musical play" (e.g., Oklahoma!, South Pacific), Composer Richard Rodgers and Librettist Oscar Hammerstein II received doctorates (of humane letters) from the University of Massachusetts. Next day Drs. Rodgers and Hammerstein did education a good turn, endowed Manhattan's famed Juilliard School of Music with a perpetual scholarship to go yearly to a promising young singer...
...College Entrance Examination Board last Wednesday approved almost unanimously the Monro plan for a central scholarship clearing agency, and authorized a uniform financial statement, the first step of the system to go into use next year...
...Anna Barbara. 13). Born and raised in South Dakota-his mother was once the state's Mother of the Year-Larson made his A.B. magna cum laude in South Dakota's Augustana College, moved on to South Dakota University's law school, there won a Rhodes scholarship. At Oxford, he took first-class honors in jurisprudence, later got his M.A. At the Union Society, Oxford's top debating forum, he made treasurer but failed to become president. "I got trapped in a three-way split between Labor and Conservatives," he says, "and what in the hell...
...Adam Smith. The eldest of four children, young Rab left Attock at the age of eight for boarding schools in England's west country. There, and later at Marlborough, one of the top public schools, Rab acquired,an early self-reliance, a retiring manner, and a reputation for scholarship. His athletic prowess was limited by a badly set wrist, broken in a fall from a pony. To amplify the family's modest resources, he spent summers picking mangel-wurzels at 8? an hour...
...Sears' public statement to Griswold last year, he made no mention of any scholarship fund, and charged that the Lubells have "proven themselves unfit for admission to the bar of any of our states and, of course, unfit to continue as students at the Harvard Law School. They have, it seems to me, clearly disqualified themselves from further membership in your student body...