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...distinction—funded by the estate of Thomas T. Hoopes ’19—comes with a $4,000 award for students and a $1,000 honorarium for faculty advisors who nominated student theses or projects this spring, according to Tarik Umar ’10, an economics concentrator and a Hoopes winner...
...patronage to poets who traveled from court to court. The first de facto laureate was Ben Jonson, who received a pension from King James I in 1616. John Dryden was the first to bear the official title of "laureate," which was bestowed on him in 1670. He received an honorarium of ?100 for writing birthday poems for the royal family. Since then, poets including William Wordsworth and Alfred Lord Tennyson have held the post in England. Their only duty was to write poems for national occasions. Their compensation: some 60 cases of sherry per annum, for inspiration...
Thomas G. Everett, director of the Harvard University Band and founder of the Harvard jazz bands, has won the 2008 Luise Vosgerchian Teaching Award, according to a press release from the University. The award—which includes a $10,000 honorarium awarded through the Office for the Arts at Harvard—was established in 1986 in memory of Vosgerchian, a late music professor. “There is a still a surreal feeling,” Everett said. “I am very honored to be associated with her.” Everett, a bass trombonist...
...expresses concern "about people out there emptying out their bank accounts so their daughter with leukemia can be healed." He recently read on the air a editorial by Grady denouncing "Celebrity Christianity," which described the case of an unnamed female evangelist whose appearance contract included a five-figure honorarium, a $10,000 fuel deposit for a private plane, a five-star hotel, room-temperature Perrier and two bodyguards. The column ended, "May God help us root out the false apostles ... who are making the American church sick with their.... money-focused heresies...
Mansfield, the controversial and conservative Kenan professor of government who last year published a much debated book on manliness, will deliver the 2007 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Mansfield receives a $10,000 honorarium for the appearance...