Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Radcliffe's emphasis on research has positioned the University to contribute significantly to women's scholarship. It also implicitly attests that the undergraduate women of Radcliffe have in a very real sense become Harvard undergraduates. And that's how it should...
...argument that Radcliffe would be less appealing to the generosity of older alumnae were its name to change. These alumnae, the argument goes, might give less if it were clear that their donations supported an institution markedly different from the one they remember, one that now focusesed on advanced scholarship rather than primary undergraduate education...
...nine, and three years later began mounting mock musicals in a toy theater whose stage was an old record turntable. At about this time, an aunt whetted his theatrical passion when she took the boy to see South Pacific, which remains his favorite musical. At 14 he won a scholarship to London's Westminster School and produced three now forgotten student shows...
Ackroyd sometimes overstates his satire of scholarship and art -- Chatterton's death by poison comes not out of despair but in the hope of finding a cure for the clap. Yet the poet himself is a poignant re-creation, and the supporting cast of irrepressible eccentrics might have tumbled from a chapter of Pickwick Papers. On a train, Wychwood literally devours a novel, rolling the pages into balls and popping them into his mouth...
According to the sources, after Tung refused Lorange's alleged advances, he reversed a written evaluation of her scholarship, changing his positive assessment into a negative one, the paper reported. The University Grievance Council is investigating Tung's sexual harassment charges...