Word: scholarshipped
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...What ties the broad range of research work that's done here together is that every individual pursues scholarship and pure research for its own sake, and follows his own research interests," said Georgia Widden, public affairs officer for the institute. "There isn't any concern whatsoever for applications. No one is ever asked what is going to be the practical effect of their work...
Much of Conway's scholarship has involved studying the memoirs, letters and diaries of women...
...recipients of the Henry Russell Shaw Fellowship are Daniel J. Epstein '99 of Quincy house, Maxwell N. Krohn '99 of Kirkland House and James E. Lenhart '99 of Quincy House. The scholarship is awarded to men for travel to Europe...
...gave $1 million to the Library of Congress last Wednesday. Financier George Soros spent some $2 million last year toward making marijuana legal for medical use. Now comes leveraged-buyout mogul Ted Forstmann, who together with Wal-Mart heir John Walton is spending $100 million to give 40,000 scholarships to disadvantaged children who want an alternative to public school. This week the Children's Scholarship Fund will announce that it has been besieged with applications for the $600 to $1,600 annual stipends, even though strapped parents will have to come up with an average of $1,000 themselves...
...average Catholic school tuition, which is roughly $2,000 to $5,000 annually. I agree with Forstmann on the magic of Sister Mary William and company. If I'd gone to my neighborhood school instead of the parish school, it's doubtful I would have gone to college on scholarship or have the life I now do, the result of diagramming hundreds of sentences and writing countless essays under boot-camp conditions. But there's a difference: no one thought non-Catholic taxpayers should subsidize that choice or that money should be taken away from the public schools...