Word: scholarships
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...winner of the John Eliot Scholarship, named for a 1622 graduate of Cambridge's Jesus College who went on to found Roxbury Latin School and become a Harvard Overseer, will join the Lt. Charles Henry Fiske III Scholar and the Lionel de Jersey Harvard Scholar for a year at John Harvard's alma mater...
...Eliot scholarship will send a student to Jesus College, which was founded in 1497. The Fiske sends a student to Trinity College, and the de Jersey to Emmanuel College. The de Jersey scholar traditionally resides in John Harvard's original room...
...would consider the scholarship a failure if the students simply spent the year in the laboratory or the library," Fiske told the Gazette. "We want to make sure their studies don't get in the way of their education...
...Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy < were relatively small things as political scandals go: sky-box seats at a Dallas Cowboys game, tickets to a Chicago Bulls play-off, a ride on a corporate jet and lodging at a lakeside cabin. One of the largest items was a $1,200 scholarship for his girlfriend. At first, the situation seemed as if it might be cleared up quickly. For accepting those gratuities from Tyson Foods and other companies, some of which Espy had reimbursed, the White House demanded his resignation. Independent counsel Donald Smaltz, appointed by a three-judge panel last September, promised...
Applying under the cover story that he was a self-educated farm hand, "Santana" earned a $20,000 scholarship from the school...