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Last weekend my “reign” as Maryland’s Junior Miss came to an end, a year after I entered the pageant on a whim. Billed as a “scholarship program for accomplished high school seniors,” America’s Junior Miss program looked like a good chance to get some money for Harvard. Though my mother never forced false eyelashes on my three-year-old self in an attempt to capture the Mid-Atlantic Miss Dream Girl title, my first cousin, Miss America 1979 had been pestering...
...didn’t announce Maryland as one of the eight finalists, and I didn’t even make it to the sweet 16. But I flew home with a lot of really great memories and a $2,500 Preliminary Scholastics Award. Coupled with my state award winner scholarship, Junior Miss paid for about four Ec10 lectures this year...
Academic presses may be the only companies in America devoted to selling products that most people don’t want. While the rest of the publishing industry chases after bestsellers, university presses are designed to print academically important but economically unviable works of scholarship. According to an article by Sisler in Learned Publishing magazine, university presses produce nearly 15 percent of the titles published annually, but earn under two percent of total industry revenues, and account for just one tenth of a percent of all books sold in the country...
Sisler says he has reacted by emphasizing what he calls “scholarship plus”: academically credible books with popular appeal. Today, these books constitute up to 40 percent of HUP’s catalogue. “A place like Harvard is uniquely positioned to bring scholarship to a general audience that readers who are not specialists can trust,” says HUP Humanities Editor Kathleen McDermott. “Yet we do it in ways that they can access—books that they can read without having to keep up in the field...
...procedure for applying for the award at Harvard requires students to submit the complete Truman Scholarship application to the Office of Career Services in November. A committee then narrows down the pool and conducts interviews before choosing its four nominees...