Word: scholarshipped
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...know the story. With the flurry of acceptance letters comes inspirational, vomit-inducing stories in local papers. You know, the ones extolling the admitted students' virtues (brainy, friendly, well-liked, and modest!), detailing the horrible, horrible dilemma of being accepted to multiple schools with various scholarship options (Harvard?! or Princeton?? or Stanford??? or a FULL RIDE TO [insert state school]?!?! OMG MY LIFE IS SO DIFFICULT!! FML!!), and of course, FlyBy's favorite—recounting highly storied anecdotes from their time as a precocious child budding with Ivy League potential ("Alfonso was always the first to finish coloring...
...What Souter did have were unquestionable intellectual chops. He majored in philosophy and graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard. Then came the Rhodes scholarship that took him to Oxford and the Harvard law degree that quickly brought him a job with a New Hampshire law firm. But Souter was restless in private practice. By 1968 he had joined the staff of the state attorney general's office. When Warren Rudman became attorney general two years later he tapped Souter as his chief aide, and when Rudman moved on to the U.S. Senate in 1976 he persuaded...
...extension with United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). The HIO should use all of its considerable resources, connections, and expertise in immigration law to help Munir. It is ironic that we have a “scholars-at-risk” program and are dedicated to scholarship when we neglect one of our own students who fears persecution. Fellow students have written letters to the immigration service asking for Munir’s release, but an official letter from President Drew G. Faust in conjunction with a concerted effort from the HIO would have a much greater impact...
Although “Oil Empire” is a work of scholarship, Frank didn’t intend for it to be a book that only scholars would read. For her, the key to writing and teaching history is to find out how it matters to people who are interested and intelligent but not experts...
...reading. We spend much of that week’s discussion talking about that image— I think it gives people something really concrete on which to focus their reading.” “She brings a unique perspective and a high level of scholarship that, when combined with her approachable nature, makes her an outstanding professor,” says Vanessa R. Dube ’10, a future senior thesis advisee of Roberts’ and a Crimson editorial editor. The professor’s popularity extends beyond the HAA department...