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...Cambridge-based Stride-Rite Corporation has give Holdt the opportunity to spend this coming year following her interest. She is one of five seniors who recently received one of the company's $10,000 "Post-Graduate Incentive Grants" to help pursue careers in teaching and public service...
Greg A. Johnson '72, director of the Stride-Rite program, says Harvard undergraduates interested in public service benefit from a recent surge of corporate support for community work. the Stride-Rite program is in its fourth year. The Echoing Green program, which gives up to nine grants of $15,000 to students from seven colleges, is in its second...
...early paintings, of the 1870s, are stiff, naive and curiously old- fashioned; they are almost exactly like the work that Raphaelle Peale, America's first still-life artist, had been doing around 1815. But Harnett hit his stride in the 1880s, and in fact the most beautiful painting in this show, The Artist's Letter Rack, dates from 1879: an image of letters, visiting cards and a theater ticket, the meager index of an artist's social life, held by a crisscrossed square of pink tape to an unvarnished pine board. Everything is actual size, and the flatness...
...graduate students in a cognitive-psychology class at Carnegie-Mellon University are actually enrolled at the nearby University of Pittsburgh. Many experts believe that much more can be done to eliminate overlap. "Worcester County in Massachusetts has at least five colleges," says Arnold Hiatt, chairman of the Stride Rite Corp. and a member of that state's Higher Education Coordinating Council. "If one has an outstanding physics department, it would make sense for the other four to phase out physics and build their own strengths...
...personification of a system and a politics that don't work," Brown barked. "I constitute a challenge to the failed status quo." Only in the last few days of the campaign, when Clinton loosened up and displayed more passion on the stump, did he seem to hit his stride...