Word: scholarship
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...College Scholarship and was awarded the Robert Westervelt Memorial Scholarship...
...also served as a teacher for the Civics program, a joint IOP and PBH program that allows Harvard students to teach elementary school children about politics and the media. Earlier this year, the Michigan native was also awarded a Truman scholarship...
...With three winners each, West Point Military Academy and Yale both outpaced Harvard's Rhodes crop. Including Javaras and Kuziemko, 295 Harvard students have won the scholarship--a total that exceeds all other universities...
Editor's note: In a riveting exercise in biblical scholarship and storytelling, Reynolds Price translated the Greek texts of Mark and John, then wrote his own narrative in Three Gospels (1996). We asked Price, a prolific novelist (Kate Vaiden, the trilogy A Great Circle, Roxanna Slade and the forthcoming children's novel A Perfect Friend), to take another look at episodes in Jesus' life and craft a new Gospel based on the historical evidence and his reading of the Bible. He adds a chapter in which his erudition and imagination take a leap into an unexplored moment after Christ...
...galvanic force--ambitious, hugely inventive, avaricious--he is the portraitist of the poshest plutocrats, nobly aglitter, and the allegorist of human wreckage. Schama's book is a marvel of storytelling: sometimes heart pounding, always sympathetic and coolly reasoned. Seamlessly joining social history and art, what a triumph of scholarship and imagination...