Thomas Jefferson established the first great state university here and designed a campus that is a museum of architecture in itself. Though Campbell Hall is hardly a suitable neighbor of the Lawn, the University of Virginia architecture school has continued to offer excellent education despite its mo...
Ellis attended the Buckley School, an elite private K–12 school. When he was a teenager he wrote his first novels, one of which he describes as “just really me inserting myself into Joan Didionessays.” These were never published, but another manuscript that he began working on while at...
this means that even if you feel comfortable enough to come out to friends and family, it might not be enough to protect you from discrimination or harassment in the workplace or school.
however, at the grammar-school not quite one year, though in that time I had risen gradually from the middle of the class of that year to be the head of it, and farther was removed into the next class above it, in order to go with that into the third at the end of the year. ...
These activities were disrupted when her father died of cholera and Fuller was made responsible for supporting her mother and eight siblings. She taught at Bronson Alcott’s progressive-minded, co-educational Boston Temple School. After that school closed, Fuller taught at the Greene Street School ...
” Later in the episode, Faruq’s wife emphasizes the point, saying “he has put things aside. You do [this] with family. He wanted to go to school for [cooking], and he just [gesturing with hands] couldn’t” (S1E1). When the judges announce that Faruq has passed his cooking ...
The UCLA dental school clerk had turned 40 without marrying and didn’t think the women he was dating were suitable. They were divorced, he said, and seemed anti-men or set in their ways. So he began thinking more about Elsie Jamora, one of his pen pals from the Philippines. A univers...
Ma graduated from the Juilliard School and Harvard University. He has performed as a soloist with many of the top orchestras around the world, has recorded over 90 albums and won 19 Grammy Awards. Ma enjoys learning about and performing various pieces of world music including American bluegrass...
But the old oracle said, “All things have two handles: beware of the wrong one.” In life, too often, the scholar errs with mankind and forfeits his privilege. Let us see him in his school, and consider him in reference to the main influences he receives. ...
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was born free to free parents in the slaveholding state of Maryland. Her parents died when Harper was still young. Subsequently, she was brought up by her Uncle William J. Watkins, a minister, educator, and founder of a school for free blacks. In 1850, she ...