Word: scholarships
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Three undergraduates upheld the University's longstanding tradition of dominance in this year's Rhodes scholarship competition. The three are among the 32 students nationwide who were named recipients of the prestigious scholarship late Saturday night...
...Harvard students selected are Jonathan J. Finer '99 of Winthrop House, Akash K. Kapur '98 formerly affiliated with Dunster House and Navin Narayan '99 of Adams House. The Rhodes scholarship was established in 1904 by the estate of Cecil Rhodes. Rhodes envisioned bringing students from nine beneficiary countries to Oxford, his alma mater, to promote international understanding and peace...
Selection for the Rhodes, the nation's oldest international study award, is based on high academic achievement, integrity of character, a spirit of unselfishness, respect for others and leadership potential, said Elliot F. Gerson '74, the American secretary of the Rhodes Scholarship trust...
Lawrence-King is an ideal person to introduce early music, as he has quite an impressive background. He won an Organ Scholarship to Cambridge and attended the London Early Music Center. He is the Baroque conductor and founder and director of two ensembles, has made solo recordings and was the recipient of two significant awards...
Paglia, however, is not alone in portraying postmodernism as a negative influence on educational scholarship, or as a virus that particularly attacks the educational elite. For this reason, it is useful to ask: What the heck does "postmodern" really mean...