Word: scholarships
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Goldhagen emphatically denied that he is planning any lawsuit, and has instead written several pieces attacking the quality of both Birn's and Finkelstein's scholarship...
John Dowling said that one of his fondest memories as a master was the year when three students in the House won the Rhodes Scholarship. Students this year--who won one Rhodes, two Rockefeller Fellowships and three Marshall Scholarships--did not do badly for themselves either, John Dowling said...
...possible, as Harper says, that an older scholar may resist new modes of thinking, though we certainly hope to avoid making that kind of appointment. But it is at least equally possible that after receiving tenure a younger scholar may grow comfortable, cease to pursue active scholarship and resist new modes of thinking. There are many good reasons for promoting Faculty members "from within," but doing so cannot guarantee that a department will thereby be made more vital and interesting in the long run. In many tenure-track departments the reverse has in fact happened...
While also interested in applying for the Fulbright, she was ineligible for the scholarship because she is Canadian and the award is only given to American students...
...intellectual growth over the long term, or the scholar recognized as a mature authority in a given field who resists new modes of working in or thinking about that field. Harvard does boast a number of senior Faculty who continue to be vital and innovative in their teaching and scholarship. Nevertheless, its anomalous and increasingly laughable tenuring procedures also make it a haven for the latter type of scholar described above, a critical mass of whom generally thwart the appointment of the former type. Until this situation changes--a prospect about which I remain highly doubtful--any talented younger scholar...