Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some students turned Harvard down because of misconceptions, Evans said. One student thought a ROTC scholarship could not be used at the college, while another was uncertain as to whether the ROTC scholarship would remain valid. One student feared being restricted to two extracurricular activities...
...issue that Lani Guinier attacks in her writings -- the tyranny of the majority, as James Madison described it -- is neither obscure nor an unworthy target. But it's small wonder that few people are familiar with her scholarship. Turgid and ambiguous, Guinier's writing is not the stuff of bedtime reading. A case in point is her 48,948-word article in the Michigan Law Review of March 1991, titled "The Triumph of Tokenism," which Clinton singled out last week in explaining why he was withdrawing her nomination. "Many of her analyses I agree with," he said, but he dismissed...
Some professors say that as a result of that reluctance to bring about change, in both what defines "the best" in scholarship and who is to perform it, Harvard's tenure process is not always a fair one for female candidates...
...activism, and the scholarship, provide a curious if not surprising mix given Goldfarb's background. He comes from a middle-class New York Jewish family. His parents were children of immigrants who valued education above all else and were willing to make financial sacrifices to send a son to Harvard...
...lives in an apartment 10 minutes away from the Yard and walks to work. He takes time off from both activism and scholarship to hike and listen to a 500-strong CD collection, which is heavy on the Romantic composers. He reads Wittgenstein and the occasional contemporary gay fiction. He cooks Indian food...