Word: scholarship
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Frank Kush was the classic all-American success story. One of 15 children, he grew up in a company-owned house above coal Mine 35 outside Johnstown, Pa., won a football scholarship to Michigan State University, and in 1958 was named head coach at Arizona State in Tempe. There his Sun Devils became one of the toughest teams in the country. Kush's coaching record of 176 wins, 54 losses and one tie was second only to that of Alabama's Bear Bryant...
Rosovsky said last week the usual criteria was used in judging Isaac's candidacy: "scholarship, teaching, and the needs of the Afro-American Studies Department in the long...
...contemporary theories of racial inferiority proposed by social and biological sciences. Sure they were wrong because they allowed their racist attitude to influence their writing of history, Handlin says. Nonetheless, they deserve no more than a slap on the wrist. After all, these works "were products of serious scholarship, had respectable scientific underpinnings, and earned respect as useful contributions to the solution of current problems." Some people found them useful, anyway--state legislators held up these books as supporting "evidence" for Jim Crow laws. But Handlin excuses "the occasional racist slurs" of the 1940s and '50s, calling them "less troubling...
...Soni, a black South African with a year-long special scholarship at Harvard, the idea of a black university in his country free of government controls makes his "blood and adrenalin flow...
Soni says his acceptance of the Harvard scholarship does not necessarily imply that he concurs with Harvard's policy toward its investments in corporations active in South Africa...