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...that at the moment, Harvard’s financial situation is bearable. But in a society that has watched an institution as seemingly indestructible as Lehman Brothers collapse, nothing can be certain. Donahue insists that “there won’t be a problem with funding the scholarship program this year.” But even Donahue admits that the endowment will suffer along with the rest of the countries financial state...
...through the old requirements or through one of the new tracks. While she said that she is happy that she now has so many choices within one concentration, she is also upset that now that students can choose not to write theses. The History and Science concentration depends on scholarship, she said, and the thesis is an instrumental part of the learning experience...
...makes any Muslim study of its non-supernatural origins almost impossible. One of the several things that offended Khomeini was The Satanic Verses' willing creation of a fiction around precisely that historical process. But in some ways historical research is more threatening than invention. "There is so much contemporary scholarship about the origins of Islam," Rushdie said, pointing out that Mohammed lived well within the historical era. "If you insist that the text is the uncreated word of God, then the social and economic conditions of the Arabian peninsula in the seventh century are unimportant, because God works...
...studied ballet in high school and was offered a scholarship to the Joffrey Ballet, but went to Sarah Lawrence College instead, where he earned a bachelor's degree. He has a master's degree in speech from Northwestern University...
...political leanings of professors are poor litmus tests for their intellect, pedagogical aptitude, or enthusiasm for teaching—all of which are more important considerations in the hiring of professors and the development of young minds. Secondly, the idea that liberal—or untraditional—scholarship is undesirable is one fundamentally opposed to the ideal of academia, which has proven most influential when it has pressed conventional knowledge to its limits and challenged traditional ways of thinking. It is perhaps true is that the trend of academic scholarship today lends itself to progressive thinking, as postmodernist...