Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Beginning in January, 1959, Algerian students arrived in America. Knowing little or no English, they were placed in the English Language Institutes of Columbia, Rutgers, and Michigan. Within three months the students were speaking good enough English to be admitted to prominent American universities. Their records so far, stated Clifford...
Each year the NSA sponsors two conferences for their "Special Algerian Scholarship Program," for which they pay all traveling expenses. Last year's winter conference was held at Yale. The summer conferences are held on the site of the NSA Congress.
"I am much more impressed by Harvard than Yale," said Rachid Benounmour, President of the U.S. section of UGEMA. Harvard students, he found, "are more aware of international affaire" and are more able "to get away from provincialism" than students of other universities he had visited.
Reuben A. Brower, professor of English, has received a 1960 Christian Gauss prize given by Phi Beta Kappa.
Awarded for the "best book written by an American in literary criticism or history," the $1000 prize was given to Brower for his recent work, Alexander Pope: the Poetry of Allusion.