Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is the sort of thing that I was kicking around the back of my mind while writing my thesis. From time to time I would feel the need to read ethical teachings about scholarship. I looked up what the rabbis said about learning Torah. I read Ruskin on reading. I read Samuel Johnson's essay "On Scholarship." I found these to be real pick-me-ups, my version of chugging espressos and popping Vivarin. The whole thesis process tends to be "meta" as it is, focusing as much attention on the experience of research and writing...
...Harvard juniors were among a group of 80 students nationwide who received Truman Scholarships awarding up to $30,000 from the Harry Truman Scholarship Foundation...
Supinda Bunyavanich '99 and Michael K. Titelbaum '99 were notified over spring break via e-mail that they had won the scholarship competition. This year, Harvard and Radcliffe nominated eight students, from which five students were selected as national finalists...
According to its Web site, The Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation awards scholarships to college students who have outstanding leadership potential, plan to pursue careers in government or elsewhere in public service and wish to attend graduate school to help prepare for their careers...
...Truman Scholarship, Titelbaum said, will help him pursue a career in educational administration...