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NEW LONDON, Conn. -- Members of the Scholars Program and their cadre instructors are sworn-in during a ceremony July 22, 2013 at Leamy Hall. Applicants who are offered the opportunity to participate in the Scholars Program spend three weeks at CGA to become oriented to the Academy, and are then sent to either Georgia Military College in Milledgeville, Ga., or Marion Military Institute in Marion, Ala. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Cory J. Mendenhall.
Widener Law Commonwealth's Scholars Reception for first and second-year students. Students had the opportunity to also learn more about our Moot Court, Trial Advocacy and Law Review organizations.
Poetry Thursdays Presents- ONE NIGHT ONLY!--
“A Poets Tour of Harrisburg (the Recording: Live!) ”
October 5; a Live Recording of A Poets Tour of Harrisburg at the Midtown Scholar!
Be part of the live recording of A Poets Tour of Harrisburg Thursday Oct 5, 7-9PM, at the Midtown Scholar Bookstore, 1519 N Third St , Harrisburg, PA !
Your words-- alive forever on shiny plastic. Hoo BwaHH!
Open reading, theme: Poems about, inspired by, or written in Harrisburg followed by the live presentation of A Poets Tour of Harrisburg with poems by Michael Olimpi, Phillip Wheeler, Keith Ward, Dave Grill, Jack Veasey, Kim Roberts, Kerry Shawn Keys, Craig Czury, Bill Roddy, Michael Brown, Keith Snow, Maria James, Jeannette Trout, Randy Gross, Lauren Gross, Kevyn Knox, Julia Tilley, Rick Kearns, & Claude Lewis.
A Poets Tour of Harrisburg is presented by the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel. Pre-order your chapbook and CD for $10 the night of the event and receive a CD of the open mic as a bonus!
So, okay, for just this one time we'll be at the Midtown Scholar Bookstore, 1519 N Third St. Harrisburg, PA 17102
O yeah! So y'all can read Harrisburg verse for arts & the commonwealth & posterity.
Next week, October 12, Poetry Thursdays will return to its natural digs at the Susquehanna Art Museum at 301 Market Street, Harrisburg. Hosted by Marty Esworthy, Jeanette Trout, Dan Craig
Christine O'Leary-Rockey, Gene Hosey,
Julia Tilley and other members of the Poetry Cartel.
Coming up later this autumn/winter: Adam Fausey, Ylynne Baskerville, Macrina Newhouse, Raven, Alex Hartman, Dave Grill, Craig Czury, LaMont Steptoe, Michael Brown, a tribute to the Harrisburg kites with your host Snow, Becci Goodall, guest host, hip fim critic Kevyn Knox and, hey! a whole lot damn more.
for more info: www.almostuptown.com
Prospective students hang out and play games at local coffee shop Sneaky Beans as part of Scholars Day for admitted students.
Oberlin's Ashby Business Scholars meet with alumni at a reception in downtown Cleveland, Ohio.
The Ashby Business Scholars program provides selected Scholars from all majors with a foundation of skills, knowledge, and contacts to help them more successfully compete for jobs and internships in a wide range of business disciplines.
Photo by Yevhen Gulenko
Presidential Scholars Irene Laochaisri '17 and Paris Ekman '17 posing in Celtics hats before the game.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Apr. 29, 2023) U. S. Naval Academy holds the annual Trident Scholar reception at Alumni Hall. The Trident Scholar Program, instituted in 1963, provides an exciting opportunity to the midshipmen in the top 15 percent of their class at the end of the first semester of their junior year in extended independent study and research throughout their senior year. As the undergraduate college of our country's naval service, the Naval Academy prepares young men and women to become professional officers of competence, character, and compassion in the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. (U.S. Navy photo by Stacy Godfrey)
Prospective students and parents joined the faculty and staff of the Louisiana Scholars' College to learn more about the program, attend classes, and get their questions answered on Saturday, March 10, 2018.
There are 20 gates to Central Park, but most people don't even know they exist.
There is no charge for entering the park, and no turnstiles or gatehouses are visible as you walk through the openings in the low stone wall along its borders. But if you look closely, you will see that some entrances have names carved into the sandstone: Scholars' Gate, Hunters' Gate. Farmers' Gate. The gates of Central Park represent one of the last battles fought by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, the park's designers, to realize their vision of a pastoral escape from the chaos of a rapidly growing metropolis.
Scholars Gate at Grand Army Plaza is one of Central Park's four main entrances along Central Park South. These entrances, the first the visitor would encounter in the 1860s when travelling north from densely populated southern Manhattan, were named "to extend each citizen a rightful welcome." In addition to Scholars' Gate, there were Artisans' Gate at Central Park South and Seventh Avenue; Artists' Gate at Central Park South and Sixth Avenue; and Merchants' Gate at Columbus Circle.
By the early 1860's, the nearly completed park was recognized as a masterpiece of landscape architecture. But some people thought the exemplars of high society who frequented the old park drives in their open carriages should be able to pass through tall, European-style gates, gates that reflected their place in the world. Olmsted, for his part, declared that "an iron railing always means thieves outside or bedlam inside," and he was outraged by this attempt to go against the park's original design.
As with so many New York stories, this one has to do with whom you know, or whom you are married to. The proposal for ornate, French urbanist-style gates at the park's southern entrance had been put forward by Richard M. Hunt, an eminent American architect trained in Paris who was, not insignificantly, the brother-in-law of a wealthy member of the commission that ran the park. Hunt's proposal included an enormous plaza with a decorative fountain, curving stairways and a 50-foot-high Classical-style column. He also envisioned the park as housing many more buildings than originally planned.
Olmsted and Vaux saw this as nothing less than an attack on everything their design was meant to accomplish. The European style symbolized the European monarchy, while the low walls and simplicity of the wilderness inside the park represented democracy and the American republic.
The park's two designers battled Hunt, ultimately blocking approval of his plans. Whether it was an ethical victory or one that was due to Park Comptroller Andrew H. Green's notoriously tightfisted decision-making is an open question. After all, it is a lot cheaper to carve some names into a wall than to build a plaza with a fountain.
But what names! Warriors' Gate. Explorers' Gate. The names were chosen in 1862 by the park's commissioners to try to represent the people who might be using the park and their professions.
They represent a bygone era, and read almost like the chapter headings in a 19th-century primer. Yet while some seem abstractly poetic, others still resonate with the life inside the walls. Enter at the Children's Gate on Fifth Avenue near 76th Street: there is a playground, and if you wander between this gate and Inventors' Gate at West 72nd Street you will see the statues of Alice in Wonderland and Hans Christian Andersen. There is the model boat pond to conquer if you can ship aboard a vessel heading out to sea. For the space of one's childhood, perhaps, it is possible to believe in growing up to become an inventor.
Opposite Merchants' Gate at Columbus Circle, it is eerily appropriate to see the new AOL Time Warner Center towering higher every day as a testament to the power of the American corporation. Strangers' Gate at 106th Street and Central Park West marks an entrance opposite the building we thought was a haunted castle when I was growing up in the neighborhood.
In fact, it was a hospital, then a nursing home, and now, after years of neglect, it is being turned into condominiums. But the construction isn't complete, and with pigeons roosting in its four turrets, it still looks like an abandoned castle. A black slate stairway leads into the park at Strangers' Gate, and to enter the park there is to enter a fairy tale: a wilderness welcoming all strangers, as Olmsted and Vaux intended.
Though all the gates were named in the 19th century, most of them didn't receive their lettering until a few years ago. The former parks commissioner, Henry J. Stern, and the Central Park administrator, Doug Blonsky, took on finishing the carving of the names as part of the park's restoration, and the final inscription was completed in December 1999. Mr. Stern felt that since the names were a reminder of the city of nearly 150 years ago, they should not be changed.
Of course, the naming was as imperfect as any democratic endeavor. There is no Clerks' Gate, a common profession at the time. But there is also no Lawyers' Gate, Therapists' Gate or Computer Programmers' Gate. In fact, the gates exist only in the names. That moment of walking through them is as simple and significant as the moment a performer walks from the wings to the stage. An invisible line is crossed, and in that moment is the metamorphosis. A century and a half later there is no architecture, only poetry: Woodman's Gate, Mariners' Gate. The gates are there and not there.
As Vaux put it at the time: "How fine it would be to have no gates."
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Apr. 29, 2023) U. S. Naval Academy holds the annual Trident Scholar reception at Alumni Hall. The Trident Scholar Program, instituted in 1963, provides an exciting opportunity to the midshipmen in the top 15 percent of their class at the end of the first semester of their junior year in extended independent study and research throughout their senior year. As the undergraduate college of our country's naval service, the Naval Academy prepares young men and women to become professional officers of competence, character, and compassion in the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. (U.S. Navy photo by Stacy Godfrey)
A luncheon for the Presidential Scholars Award winners in the 1895 Room in the University Union on the campus of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois on October 5, 2011. (Jay Grabiec)
Queen’s recently celebrated its Loran Scholars, which are awarded for academic success, extracurricular activities and leadership.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Apr. 29, 2023) U. S. Naval Academy holds the annual Trident Scholar reception at Alumni Hall. The Trident Scholar Program, instituted in 1963, provides an exciting opportunity to the midshipmen in the top 15 percent of their class at the end of the first semester of their junior year in extended independent study and research throughout their senior year. As the undergraduate college of our country's naval service, the Naval Academy prepares young men and women to become professional officers of competence, character, and compassion in the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. (U.S. Navy photo by Stacy Godfrey)
Castings like this show what a mess Matchbox has been in recent years with a never-ending range of strange plastic generic castings which are squarely aimed at children but are so bad and unrealistic that even children turn their noses up at them and they remain on the pegs indefinitely! 2015 and beyond look to see less of these types of models but they are still prevalent in the range unfortunately. Ironically this Scholar Hauler probably wouldn't look so bad without those ridiculous wheels as it appears to be quite a crisp albeit all plastic casting. This is the latest 2015 version and came from Morrisons late last year. Mint and boxed.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Apr. 29, 2023) U. S. Naval Academy holds the annual Trident Scholar reception at Alumni Hall. The Trident Scholar Program, instituted in 1963, provides an exciting opportunity to the midshipmen in the top 15 percent of their class at the end of the first semester of their junior year in extended independent study and research throughout their senior year. As the undergraduate college of our country's naval service, the Naval Academy prepares young men and women to become professional officers of competence, character, and compassion in the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. (U.S. Navy photo by Stacy Godfrey)
Associate Dean Irene Matz embracing Guardian Scholar graduate Conrad Hawk after successfully completing his undergraduate degree.
The Guardian Scholars program awards former foster youth a full scholarship to the University and provides additional assistance. The program is a working partnership between the private sector and public agencies.
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