Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Maybe I'll be teaching somewhere or teaching a youth orchestra somewhere. But the composition I'd like to keep up, but using my other music skills. I guess with not going to a conservatory school, I really missed the intense teaching aspect. Here, music is geared towards scholarship about music rather than actual playing. I would want to live in some city with interesting musical stuff going on...New York, Chicago...somewhere in Europe...
...begin with "L" (Laplace and Lagrange come to mind). It was they who showed that the "cold reason" of a science anchored in mathematics was capable of describing and predicting the workings of the universe with a precision previously undreamed-of. It was their success that made the wooly scholarship of the Scholastics and their intractable debates about the concrete existence of general categories seem ridiculous and pointless. The Enlightenment was, above all, the triumph of reasoning over scholarship...
Roddenberry says he will use the scholarship to pursue research he has already begun at the College. A psychology and biology concentrator in Dunster House, his thesis examines memory and dreams; in Britain he will work toward a master's degree in neuroscience...
...scholarship provides students with the opportunity to study several disciplines within their field of interest. Einbond, a Cabot resident, will spend his first year studying music composition and devote his second year to the cognitive science of music perception...
After receiving the scholarship, she said she felt a sense of relief sitting in her Adams House suite...