Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem is that too many people seem to be writing theses," said Christopher D. Cannon '87, English tutor for Winthrop House. The new restrictions will keep only those interested in rigorous scholarship writing theses, he said. "Otherwise they're a waste of everyone's time...
Nancy S. Pyle of the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) says that her office is hoping to complete one or two more debt-for-scholarship swaps before the end of the academic year. As part of the internationalization effort that has been one of Bok's special interests, HIID created the firstever such swap last summer with Ecuador. Recently a similar deal was worked out with Mexico...
...either of these areas. Wilson's strategic planning team is right: Radcliffe doesn't need to choose one or the other. What it does need to do is follow through on both commitments. Right now, Radcliffe administrators are in no danger of neglecting the college's research and scholarship programs. But they are over-due to prove their commitment to undergraduates...
...years, Ann Landers has been helping victims of lost love and unwelcome house guests. Now she's following some of her own good advice by donating $1 million for a Medical School scholarship fund. Landers--whose real name is Esther P. Lederer--says she is making the donation in honor of Derek Bok. In fact, Landers once complimented Bok's prominent proboscis in her column. Or maybe that was Dear Abby...
...problem here may be one of definition. Kelley's book falls short of the standards of serious biography: it is too sloppy in its scholarship, too uncritical of its sources, too single-minded in its pursuit of the sensational and salacious. In a sense, the book is a compilation of the sort of speculation, freewheeling opinions and water-cooler gossip that journalists hear every day but that rarely make it into the news pages. As such, it has an understandable fascination -- and possibly some historical validity. Water- cooler gossip, after all, is not only entertaining. Sometimes it contains pieces...