Word: scholarships
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...case, it has been a long wait and a hard climb. When Banks was the age of his students, he was a plumber in Concord, N.H., working construction. Plumbing was how the Banks men, his father and grandfather, earned their living. Russell had tried college (Colgate, on a full scholarship) but had busted out after a few months with a case of what he calls "turbulence." By 19 he had married. By 20 he had fathered a child and would soon be divorced. (He has been married for nine years to his fourth wife, poet Chase Twichell.) He had written...
...Their scholarship and teaching involve giving voice to a perspective that until the 1960s, was not heard in higher education...
Bobo says he wants to pass on to his students aconviction that scholarship can impact socialissues...
...history and symbolism. With Anna Baldwin and Emma Cheuse, I sponsored the Act for Equal Harvard-Radcliffe Baccalaureate Diplomas, which was passed by the Harvard-Radcliffe Undergraduate Council on Sunday. Many women feel that Radcliffe's resources and opportunities for women, public policy contributions and initiatives for women's scholarship are reasons enough to include Radcliffe on our diplomas. I supported this bill not only because I believe Radcliffe is important to women, but also because it has had a profound historical impact on the undergraduate experience of both men and women today...
Bobo says he wants to pass on to his students aconviction that scholarship can impact socialissues...