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...Writers Association his junior year—he is Harvard’s only player to receive such an honor during his prep career—he was recruited by baseball powers like Stanford and Georgia Tech and scouted by all thirty Major League teams. But Salsgiver turned down scholarship offers, six-figure signing bonuses and an assured place in the top 10 rounds of the MLB draft to live his dream of playing at Harvard...
...It’s actually a very reasonable increase this year, particularly in light of the recently-announced financial aid initiative and the increase in scholarship budget,” Donahue said. “It is certainly reflective of increased costs, not the least of which is the cost of health care...
...imposing demeanor and human-size emotions to roles ranging from Diahann Carroll's boyfriend in the 1960s TV sitcom Julia to Martin Luther King Jr. in the '78 mini-series King; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Raised in L.A.'s Watts section, he turned down a scholarship to Yale to pursue stage acting on the West Coast, where Sidney Poitier gave him his first film break in 1969's The Lost Man. He won an Oscar nomination for his role as a sharecropper father in the '72 film Sounder...
When she first began writing on Yeats forty years ago, Vendler was disturbed by a trend in Yeatsian scholarship that continues to this day. “A lot of the work that had been done at the time on Yeats was biographical and historical, and not enough attention had been paid to the poems,” Vendler recalls. Nowhere in many of the most thorough studies of Yeats’ career, Vendler laments, does it mention the poetic structure of his work. “The poets take a lot of pain in not writing prose...
...have lived in the same cities in Texas for the past 500 years. Very few Anglo-Protestant can say that much or claim residence in the United States for that long. Huntington’s literature has some valid claims; as a professor, he has indeed contributed to the scholarship on immigration. But his recent writings are not only offensive—they’re inaccurate...