Word: scholarshipped
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...historians' brief was submitted partly tocombat the "misuse of historical scholarship,"says Judith R. Walkowitz, a professor at RutgersUniversity...
Bourke's insinuation that ROTC students would not have attended Harvard had they not been involved in the ROTC program (receiving the scholarship) is generally true for me, but for a reason far different than any he mentions. If Harvard did not have a ROTC program I would have attended the Naval Academy. I am not in the program for the money, but for the opportunity to serve and defend my country...
...coach Pingatore worried about Carl's low marks and the risk that he might lose the scholarship. Pingatore had an idea for bringing up Carl's grade-point average. He had Carl enroll in two correspondence courses -- American government and civics -- at the Loretto Extension Service in Wheaton, Ill. Carl did assignments in a workbook under the tutelage of Pingatore. He received an A in both courses. The grades were recorded on his regular high school transcript. There was no reference on the transcript to any correspondence courses. The only thing to set the courses apart was the postgraduation completion...
...were attentive. Reggie remembers they joked with him and invited him into their homes. But each time Reggie asked about a tutor, he was put off. Then he injured his knee, and everything changed, he said. The coaches ignored him, and the invitations dried up. His grades dropped; the scholarship was withdrawn. "After I hurt my knee, it seemed like they were trying to tell me there wasn't much I could do for them, so I got up and left," says Reggie. Now 21, he lives with his family in South Carolina and is collecting unemployment...
...Amherst College graduate, Banta was studying international relations on a Rhodes scholarship at Oxford when he began working for TIME in 1979 as a stringer. After postings in Chicago as a correspondent and in New York City as a writer, he took a leave of absence in 1984 to work as issues adviser for Gary Hart's first unsuccessful presidential campaign. When he rejoined TIME a year later, Banta headed for Vienna, which is home base for his five-day-a- week forays into Eastern Europe...