Word: scholarships
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...named him after Ralph Waldo Emerson and died when the child was three. Ralph's mother worked as a domestic and recruited blacks for the Socialist Party. There was no shortage of role models for Ralph; he attended a grammar school named for Frederick Douglass and won a scholarship to Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute. While in the Merchant Marines during World War II, he published several short stories. One day, just after the war, he found himself typing, "I am an invisible man." He spent seven years developing that sentence into the work that brought him instant fame...
...lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to the Deane W. Lord Scholarship Fund at the Extension School...
Most curious of all is that, to this day, neither Green, nor Rudenstine, nor anyone else has said why the Provost decided to return to active scholarship. Indeed, the outgoing Provost's odd silence on the issue marks a sharp--and, we must admit--somewhat suspicious contrast to the Jerry Green we know and like...
...governor had an impressive academic recordat Harvard. He was one of only 45 students in hisclass to graduate summa cum laude, he was a PhiBeta Kappa member, he received a Detur Prize and aJohn Harvard Scholarship and he presented theLatin Oration at the 1966 Commencement ceremonies...
...addition to these demographic considerations, academic factors enter the search process. Harvard must maintain its high level of scholarship. Affirmative Action does not result in the hiring of inferior faculty; it merely makes a minority background a pertinent qualification when two candidates are equally matched in all other respects...