Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...analysis of this country's educational needs, Hunt asserted that the importance of learning must be made evident to American school children, as it has to Soviet youths. In this vein, scientific scholarship and leadership must be developed...
...long line of musicians, had been a church organist, but Giacomo started studying organ with little enthusiasm ("Your son," said an early teacher to his mother, "is meat which does not wish to be salted"). In time he showed a talent for composition, was shipped off on a scholarship to the Milan Conservatory. He was a good but not brilliant student. After graduation he stayed in Milan, ran up such debts with his good friend, Pietro Mascagni (Cavalleria Rusticana) that the two of them got a map and inked out in red the sections of the city they could...
...salesman's children; when dad asks what the noise is all about, the kids are instructed to tell him it's only a reminder to straighten up and sell harder. More constructively, Carrier Corp. recently launched a three-month sales drive. First prize: a $10,000 scholarship for a salesman's son or daughter...
...humanistic learning, he follows Socrates in having taken as his modus operandi the emulous pursuit of all that is most excellent. We who in turn follow him are thankful that like his miraculous namesake in Exodus, though this Bush has long burned with the fiery ardor of true scholarship, yet has he not been consumed...
...early nineteenth century graduate looked back at his college days and noted that while there was much work done in philosophy and composition, "the chief labor and crowning honor of successful scholarship were in mathematics and the classics...