Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mother thought he should be exposed to other teachers, but Van stubbornly refused. When he was 14, Mrs. Cliburn was taking master's classes at Juilliard, and Olga Samaroff,* a famed teacher at the school, offered Van a scholarship. But Pianist Samaroff died before he could start, and he refused to study with anybody else. In one volcanic scene with his mother, he threatened to give up the piano entirely if he was forced to go through with the Juilliard plans ("I always threatened her with that whenever she tried to give me away to another teacher"). They moved...
Graduate school is professional school. The purely graduate seminars put a premium upon original, creative scholarship and technical ability. In these higher level seminars there is no place for the most intrepid undergraduate. The English and History Departments have already tightened the Ph.D. requirements, in an effort to give the GSAS student a more concentrated and individualized professional training. The Government Department, too, is in the process of revising its program. But whereas graduate training is made more rigorous on its higher levels, the conference courses remain static. Although both graduates and undergrads are nominally subject to the same requirements...
Some students have been placed on probation following Sunday's disturbance in the Yard, with the individual punishment determined by the offense. Scholarship students placed on probation will lose their scholarships. Von Stade indicated that all students caught breaking College regulations would be brought before the Dean's office...
...Need is strictly a relative position," Burke emphasizes. "When we say we're here to help needy students, this does not necessarily mean only scholarship students. We hope to fill the HSA with the most needy students--but I would hesitate to tell any student he is not needy." In short, need is a signifi
Winthrop House, which set up a scholarship fund for Seniors working on their theses, has had only a limited response to the plan, according to David E. Owen, Master. He added, however, that many students have indicated a desire to use the program during the summer and "it has worked out well...