Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...easy as it is to conclude that the university faculty exists to promote scholarship, it would be foolish to suppose that more than a small minority of its patrons, adult or younger, either seek or receive training in serious research. Scholarship has always been an important but esoteric pursuit confined to a few deviants...
Kirkland: Phi Beta Kappa Society; NROTC, Exec. Officer of Harvard Unit; Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Eminent Chronicler; Harvard Union Debate Council, President; Harvard National Scholarship...
Adams: The Harvard Crimson, President; P. B. H.; HDC Theater Workshop; Harvard Young Democrats; Social Relations Society; Outing Club; Junior Usher; Franklin D. Roosevelt Scholarship...
Adams: David Mason Little Scholarship; House Athletic Secretary; House Committee; House Newspaper; Sigma Alpha Epsilon; Hasty Pudding Club...
Arrival by Fluke. Composer Engel started his first opera, Alfred, when he was ten ("I spent a great deal of time block-lettering the title at the top of the score"), eventually won a graduate scholarship to Juilliard, studied composition with craggy Modernist Roger Sessions. He arrived on Broadway "purely by fluke" when he persuaded Melvyn Douglas to let him write new incidental music for a Broadway production of Sean O'Casey's Within the Gates. That was in 1934, and since then Composer-Conductor Engel has had a hand in such diverse Broadway shows as Maurice Evans...