scholarship
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After attending the Connecticut boarding school Hotchkiss, she earned a scholarship to Princeton, arriving on campus in the late 1980s hoping to take at least one writing class with Toni Morrison.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
“People wait their whole life to find their calling,” Casey’s teacher tells her about the scholarship, asserting that a natural fluency in science means it must be her destiny.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026
And sure enough, that scholarship came to the court, and the court cited it, and most of it has been debunked and disproven, but it’s the law anyway.
From Slate ● Aug. 16, 2026
By the end of the summer, Shields was nearing 20 scholarship offers after just one season as an offensive lineman.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
“Not yet. But I’ve seen pictures. They should close it down and turn it into a Chuck E. Cheese’s—after, of course, I win my college scholarship from loony old Lemoncello.”
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
The event marked a donation by IndyCar and the Fox Corporation to fund university scholarships, ahead of an IndyCar race through the streets of Washington to mark America's 250th independence anniversary.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
Some 53% said they thought colleges should lower costs accordingly, and 38% thought they should offer more scholarships.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
The former Virginia Governor is behind Empowering America’s Parents, a group planning to advertise directly to voters in the 19 states that haven’t joined the new federal program for tax-credit scholarships.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Dozens of Gaza students who won scholarships to universities in Italy are still waiting to be evacuated due to bureaucratic red tape, leaving qualified students in a deadly conflict zone, AFP has found.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
Letters from college coaches landed regularly in his mailbox at home, holding out the prospect of scholarships.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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