Word: scholarshipped
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Freedman has embarked on an ambitious program to promote "scholarship" at Dartmouth, hiring new faculty and attempting to strengthen the undergraduate curriculum...
...years, the school's headmaster, Eric Anderson, and its provost, Lord Charteris of Amisfield, have quietly set about revolutionizing the classic institution from within. Realizing, as Anderson stresses, that Eton must prepare its students for a more international world, it has opened its doors to more and more scholarship students and to boys from Germany, the Soviet Union and Spain. Latin is fading toward obsolescence, while Arabic, Japanese and Swahili are / all on the curriculum. In a sense, the place is drawing closer to its founder's original notion of a truly "public" school. "It is a privileged school," acknowledges...
Britain's 550-year-old public school is elitist but not exclusive and increasingly tries to be modern. More and more scholarship students and foreigners enter its venerable halls...
Even Dershowitz's harshest critics usually acknowledge that the law prof's defenses, if not his intentions, are firmly grounded in legal scholarship. But how long can Dershowitz's media honeymoon last...
...president will have to convince each of them that Harvard will continue to offer its student an education equal to what they received, toward the goal of providing the world with graduates as motivated and successful as they, and in pursuit of that goal produce research and scholarship useful to those graduates and their employers. The richest among them may contribute more in one year than the average American will earn in a lifetime...