He won a scholarship to the University and majored in mathematics, and also studied astronomy, physics and chemistry.

In 1877, he won an open scholarship to St John's College, Oxford, where he studied classics.

At age 14 Sapir won a Pulitzer scholarship to the prestigious Horace Mann high school, but he chose not to attend the school which he found too posh, going instead to Peter Stuyvesant High School, and saving the scholarship money for his college education.

Having spent a productive year there, Shepard won a scholarship to the Royal Academy Schools

Initially he trained for a career in music and became so proficient on the tuba that he won a musical scholarship to the New York Military Academy.

There he won a play-writing scholarship, which furthered his interest in directing theater, though this wasn't approved by his father, who wanted him to study engineering.

The following year, Wells won a scholarship to the Normal School of Science ( later the Royal College of Science in South Kensington, now part of Imperial College London ) in London, studying biology under Thomas Henry Huxley.

Holt won a scholarship to Queen's College at the University of Melbourne and began his law degree in 1927.

He won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1943.

At 16, in 1975, Bacon won a full scholarship to and attended the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts at Bucknell University, a state-funded five-week arts program where he studied Theatre under Dr.

He won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read history and economics.

He won a football scholarship to Prairie View A & M University, where he majored in mathematics, but was expelled after his first year.

Then he won a scholarship to Stowe School, quartered in an 18th century manor house.

He won a scholarship to study mathematics at St John's College, Cambridge in 1915, and in 1916 gained a first in part I of the Mathematical Tripos.

He subsequently won a scholarship to study at the Yale School of Architecture in the United States of America.

Robeson won a scholarship to Rutgers University, where he was a football All-American and class valedictorian.

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Hoffmann graduated in 1955 from New York City's Stuyvesant High School, where he won a Westinghouse science scholarship.

By age five, she had begun composing instrumental pieces on piano and, while living in Rockville, Maryland, she won a full scholarship to the Preparatory Division of the Peabody Conservatory of Music.

He graduated in 1913 and succeeded in getting a scholarship to MIT which had earlier been won by his father.

Moore's musical talent won him an organ scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford.

At 19 he won an entrance scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford.

From there he won a scholarship to Magdalen College School in Oxford, where he was a solo treble in the college choir.

Karpov won a gold medal for academic excellence in high school, and entered Moscow State University in 1968 to study mathematics.

In 1802, at the age of 26, he won a place to study theology at St. John's College, Cambridge where he changed his name, Brunty, to the more distinguished sounding Brontë.

For example, Philippe Bourgois won the Margaret Mead Award in 1997 for In Search of Respect, a study of the entrepreneurs in a Harlem crack-den.

The youngest son of William Edward Parkinson ( 1871 – 1927 ), an art master at North East County School and from 1913 principal of York School of Arts and Crafts, and his wife, Rose Emily Mary Curnow ( born 1877 ), the young Parkinson attended St. Peter's School, York, where in 1929 he won an Exhibition to study history at Emmanuel College at the University of Cambridge.

He returned to Palermo in 1874 and won a competition for a four-year grant, which enabled him to study Renaissance sculpture in Florence.

Historian Benjamin Platt Thomas wrote that Booth " won celebrity with theater-goers by his romantic personal attraction ", but that he was " too impatient for hard study " and his " brilliant talents had failed of full development.

Within three years Boucher had already won the elite Grand Prix de Rome, although he did not take up the consequential opportunity to study in Italy until four years later.

In spite of this Piazzolla's composition won a grant from the French government to study in Paris with the legendary French composition teacher Nadia Boulanger at the Fontainebleau conservatory.

Together with his collaborator Willy Ley, de Camp won the 1953 International Fantasy Award for nonfiction for their Lands Beyond, their study of geographical myths.

Idle maintains that there was little to do at the school and boredom drove him to study hard, and consequently won a place at Cambridge University.

In 1919 he won a Government grant to study in London at the Westminster School of Art under Walter Bayes and Bernard Meninsky.

She later attended Kensington High School and won a bursary to Royal Holloway College in 1891 to study literature ..

Born in Paderno Fasolaro, now Paderno Ponchielli, near Cremona, Ponchielli won a scholarship at the age of nine to study music at the Milan Conservatory, writing his first symphony by the time he was ten years old.

NEFA protested against logging here and won an agreement to delay logging to allow a joint study by NEFA and the state Forestry Commission.

She won the Wolfson History Award in 1984 for The Weaker Vessel, a study of women's lives in 17th century England.

Woodcock later wrote The Crystal Spirit ( 1966 ), a critical study of Orwell and his work which won a Governor General's Award.

He won a scholarship to Sheffield City Grammar School and went from there to study at the University of Hull.

From the age of 16, he played in bars, and won a scholarship to study musical composition at London's Royal Academy of Music.

Casey won a two-year John R. Freeman fellowship from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1933 to study hydraulics and civil engineering in Germany.

Although he failed to achieve a first class degree in Greats, he won the Lothian and Arnold Prizes, the latter for an essay on Sir Thomas More ( about whom he confessed to having known almost nothing before commencing study, literally delivered as the clocks were chiming midnight on the day of the deadline ).

Takeshita formed a " study group " called Soseikai, and this group quickly won over 40 of the faction's 120 Diet members.