Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Critics have charged recently that the Kennedy School has stressed numbers-crunching and preprofessionalism over intellectual scholarship, and many saw Putnam's selection over the Kennedy School insiders as a response to such criticisms...
...homeschooling certainly hasn't handicapped the Colfaxes' intellectual achievement. Grant is currently in New Zealand on a Fulbright Scholarship and plans to attend Harvard Medical School in the fall. A magna cum laude graduate in biology, Grant won a Hoopes Prize for his thesis...
...past 17 years, Horner has effectively built up Radcliffe's many scholarly programs, establishing what many academics would call the foremost research institute on scholarship by, for, and about women. But paradoxically, although Radcliffe is now widely recognized in academic circles, most undergraduate women identify themselves as Harvard students and scarcely know that Radcliffe exists, except as a name on their letters of admission and diplomas...
...women know or take advantage of these programs and, in the long run, such small contributions aren't enough. If Radcliffe wants women to take themselves seriously, then it must begin to take itself seriously as well, not only in scholarship about women, but in their everyday lives. The next Radcliffe president should not only be a "different voice" rhetorically arguing for women's equality at Harvard, but should act on its ideals and become a force for Harvard to reckon with. As long as Harvard refuses to fully meet the needs of undergraduate women, Radcliffe still has a role...
...said the scholarship shows students that financial assistance for schooling is available and that large companies like IBM care about the future of young people...