Word: scholarship
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Granieri's turn toward the right occurred after he won a scholarship to a Jesuit school in Buffalo and was exposed to conservative ideas for the first time. Granieri found a particular fascination with the life of Alexander Hamilton, a West Indian who through sheer smarts made his way to the North American colonies and to Columbia College. "Hamilton was the scholarship student of the American Revolution," says Granieri. Hamilton, not incidentally, also emerged as one of the most prominent conservative thinkers...
Granieri's strategy has increasingly focused on conservatism as an intellectual pursuit. When Granieri returns from a Rotary Scholarship in Germany next year, he plans to attend graduate school in American history. Here again, Granieri envisions himself as a lonely crusader. He rejects the idea that conservatives should shun academia because it is irrevocably lost to liberals. Granieri is unlikely to win many friends through his intention to pursue his interest in diplomatic and military history--fields which have come under attack in recent decades by historians who have turned to social history which is held to be less elitist...
Because the University operates on the "everytub on its own bottom" philosophy--meaning thatevery school is financially responsible foritself--without an aggressive effort by Allison tobuild a substantial endowment, the school couldnot have grown as it has over the past 12 years ineither physical resources or scholarship, Cavanaghsays...
...prize is designed to bring together student scholarship on Afro-American studies from across the College, Huggins said. The selection committee received entries from concentrators in a variety of departments, including History, Literature and Afro-American Studies, he said...
...could use [the Gulf site] for the library," Feng says, adding that although she does not view "the space crunch [as] the most fundamental problem for scholarship,...it's the most pressing...