Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will be going to the need-based scholarship program," Director of Financial Aid James S. Miller said...
...large boost to the University's Capital Campaign, officials announced a $10 million donation yesterday, a portion of which will go to establishing a new undergraduate scholarship fund...
...Harvard College along with the men is ultimately a reflection of the immense contribution of Radcliffe to the lives of women students over the last century. In its incarnation as the Institute for Advanced Study, Radcliffe now seems poised for a new century of contributions to women's scholarship and advancement...
Williamson was an eagle scout and student-body president in high school and won a scholarship to U.N.C. After graduation he spent an aimless year in New Orleans, where he played guitar in a rock band, smoked marijuana and drank too much. He returned to U.N.C. for law school in 1992 but had trouble concentrating. He also began talking, his mother recalls, "about how he could read people's minds, and they could read his." One day, walking near the law school, he started screaming and slapping himself...
Since the first broadcast of the groundbreaking 1977 miniseries Roots, Hollywood, in such films as Glory, Amistad and Beloved, has helped depict a more complex picture of race relations in early America. Combined with new literature and scholarship on the African American experience such as John Hope Franklin's Runaway Slaves, the companion to the four-part, six-hour PBS series Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery, and Microsoft's CD-ROM encyclopedia, the Encarta Africana, there is respect and understanding for the lives of African ancestors...