Word: scholarship
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...life can be a grind. Marilyn Masiero, 25, who will receive her education degree from New York University in January, has taken several bank loans, worked summers, weekends and Christmas vacations, is now an apprentice teacher in a Harlem public school. "You die of anxiety every year until that scholarship letter comes," she says. "If you go out on a date, you borrow the clothes. You have a pair of shoes and a pair of sandals, and you wear the sandals till November. For Christmas gifts you ask for money and underwear...
...college of his choice, he went about applying with typical directness; he marched straight to the office of the president. Advised that the college had closed its admissions for the year, he nonetheless so impressed the authorities that they made room for him-and gave him a scholarship as well. To help put himself through college, he worked as a postal clerk, waiter, shoe salesman and mess boy on an oil tanker; he also wrote business articles for the New York Herald Tribune...
...intend to operate in this manner, and added that, even if the amendment passed, it would not be humanly possible to eliminate disciplinary considerations completely from the summer review, since the comittee would have read the newspapers, and would thus be aware of any major violations by a scholarship student...
...political effects are the central points. Radical attacks on faculty research have been met with firm replies about the sanctity of "academic freedom." Professors steadfastly resist the notion that there should be political tests for scholarly work, or that students should have any influence on the direction of that scholarship...
Rather, it should become even more apparent that social scientists must make their frames of reference explicit in order to understand their own assumptions. It should also become clear that academic freedom consists of assuring that all political viewpoints are represented in the world of scholarship. To safeguard academic freedom, the University should recruit and support social scientists who can transcend the common American framework by producing admittedly "political" research...