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Earlier this month, four Harvard professors were honored with John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships, awards dedicated to the promotion of scholarship in both the arts and sciences through funded research...
Born in 1925, Margaret Hilda Roberts was an enormously industrious girl. The daughter of a Grantham shopkeeper, she studied on scholarship, worked her way to Oxford and took two degrees, in chemistry and law. Her fascination with politics led her into Parliament at age 34, when she argued her way into one of the best Tory seats in the country, Finchley in north London. Her quick mind (and faster mouth) led her up through the Tory ranks, and by age 44 she got settled into the "statutory woman's" place in the Cabinet as Education Minister, and that looked like...
...afternoons, the children manufactured envelopes. In 1980, as China was starting to open to the outside world, Yan's grandfather reactivated old international links from before the 1949 communist revolution. (Granddad had founded Tianjin's branch of the Rotary Club in the 1920s.) Yan got a Rotary scholarship and was the first high school student in China allowed to go abroad. Wearing his school uniform, he took a train to the Hong Kong border. A family friend met him, bought him clothes, a watch and a Playboy-brand belt. Seven days later, he arrived in Auckland, New Zealand. "My hosts...
...Murphy scholarship and the Boston Newsboy's Scholarships have met the same fate--interest from these gifts now fills coffers used for general scholar-ships...
Much of the endowment is made up of restricted gifts, money sometimes tied to purposes like the Boston News-boy's Scholarship, which are as old as the College water pump in front of Stoughton Hall and nearly as useless...