Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there can be no doubt that the star athlete can and does exist at Harvard. They've never manufactured jocks at Cambridge, and they're not about to start now. "Athletic scholarship" is not in the vocabulary, "first round draft pick" a rare species...
...correct: I'd like to meet you. 14--17: Expert, but no Rotary Scholarship. 10--13: Solid, but you'll probably never get out of group three. 5--9: Probably think 60 Boylston St. is a discoteque. 0--4: Hang...
Because it is huge, exhaustively researched and written by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., an eminent historian who has won two Pulitzer Prizes, this biography will probably be heralded for years to come as the definitive portrait of Robert F. Kennedy. The book's breadth and scholarship merit this attention; future students of R.F.K. and his age could do far, far worse. But those too young to have experienced the 16 turbulent years of Kennedy's public life may leave Schlesinger's extended guided tour with a pronounced feeling of bewilderment. Why did Bobby waste time campaigning...
...executive director, Opel is responsible for working with Radcliffe Clubs and Alumnae Committees across the country, providing assistance for the educational and scholarship fund-raising activities these groups plan...
...columnist and author (Nixon Agonistes. Bare Ruined Choirs), Wills has performed an amazing job of scholarship-a total immersion in the world that gave Jefferson's mind its contours. In 1770 a fire destroyed his library and most of his papers. While other historians have tended to base their conclusions on Jefferson's later correspondence, Wills persuasively argues that Jefferson's mind was thoroughly matured by the time he was 27, the year so many of his books went up in smoke. Wills shrewdly reconstructs Jefferson's intellectual inheritance: the lan guage and assumptions with which...