Word: scholarshipped
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...sculpture park is the brainchild of its director, Paul Tucker, an art history professor at UMass Boston, a recent recipient of UMass's Distinguished Scholarship Award and an internationally renowned expert on Impressionism. With characteristic fervor, Tucker curated the 1998 Monet in the 20th Century show at the Museum of Fine Arts, setting a new attendance record for the museum. At UMass Boston's pre-Commencement dinner this year, Chancellor Penny declared the establishment of the Paul Hayes Tucker Endowed Chair for the Arts, which was facilitated by $1 million donations from members of the Arts on the Point advisory...
...These pieces are icons, they're placed on a pedestal and worshiped like gods in most books. In this book, we stop studying once the first performance is over. There's a whole lot of scholarship on the later influence of these pieces, but all of those things are built up after the piece. I'm interested in what these pieces were like when they had no history at all, when they played the first note and you didn't know what the second note sounded like...
...emphasizes that it was scholarship, not activism, that most interested her husband. His friends agree...
...Harvard, Pusey's heart was in the College, which he wanted to use to instill the value of scholarship in young students. Liberal education meant broad reading in all of the humanities--which, in Pusey's ideal view, included a healthy dose of religion...
Simmons's story is a testament to her resilience, determination and sheer courage. The youngest of 12 children born to Texas sharecroppers, her dream was to attend college on a scholarship. She has accomplished that and so much more. After attending Dillard University in New Orleans, she came to Harvard for her master's and doctorate degrees in Romance languages and literatures. She served as vice provost of Princeton before assuming the presidency of Smith in 1995. When she takes office as Brown's president in July 2001, she will break down a color barrier that has stood...