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.

He won a scholarship to study at Merton College, Oxford on a four year course, which he started in 1968 and he graduated in 1972 with first-class honours degree in biochemistry.

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.

Although she was initially known as a " scream queen " because of her starring roles in several horror films early in her career, such as Halloween, The Fog, Prom Night, and Terror Train, Curtis has since compiled a body of work that spans many genres, and has won BAFTA and Golden Globe awards.

In 1996, he won an Emmy Award for his role as a gay pediatrician in a television-movie version of the Wendy Wasserstein play The Heidi Chronicles, starring Jamie Lee Curtis.

The second series won the Silver Rose at the Montreux FestivalThe main writers included David Renwick, Colin Bostock-Smith, Andy Hamilton, Peter Brewis, Richard Curtis, and Clive Anderson.

In April 2012, Curtis won the Valero Texas Open for his fourth PGA Tour victory and ended a six year winless drought on tour.

During his third year at Curtis, Alessi joined the Philadelphia Orchestra as caretaker Second Trombone ; he later won the job permanently and performed with the orchestra for four seasons.

Humphrey and Muskie received 42. 72 percent of the popular vote and carried 13 states and 191 electoral votes ; Nixon and Agnew won 43. 42 percent of the popular vote and carried 32 states and 301 electoral votes, while the third party ticket of George Wallace and Curtis LeMay, running as candidates of the American Independent Party, took 13. 53 percent of the popular vote and took five states in the Deep South and their 46 votes in the electoral college.

In 1998, a one-hour BBC documentary on Lacks and HeLa directed by Adam Curtis, won the Best Science and Nature Documentary at the San Francisco International Film Festival.

In the 2002 Olympics at Salt Lake City, Utah, Brodeur was initially named the backup behind Curtis Joseph, but following Joseph's losing the tournament opener against Sweden, Brodeur was named the starting goaltender the rest of the way, and won gold for Canada.

She won the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women ( AIAW ) National Championship and was a member of the U. S. Curtis Cup and World Amateur teams.

Schmidt won the 1973 leadership election by defeating former Highways Minister Gordon Taylor, former Education Minister Robert Curtis Clark, who was also the party's acting leader in the legislature, and John Ludwig, dean of business education at Alberta College.

In 1970, Curtis won the Best R & B Instrumental Performance Grammy for " Games People Play ".

Curtis won the nomination, then the general election.

Denholm Elliott and Jamie Lee Curtis won the awards for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and Best Actress in a Supporting Role, respectively, at the 37th British Academy Film Awards.

Meanwhile, Katie Curtis, the Labour Students candidate, narrowly won the full-time position of National Women's Officer at the Women's Campaign Conference.

Curtis Lewis, head coach of the women's soccer team, won the NIA Women's Soccer Coach of the Year award in 2008.

Young Curtis attended common school in Newton and beginning in 1825 Harvard College, where he won an essay writing contest in his junior year.

Eudy won but was attacked post-match by the debuting Curtis Hughes.

The first female recipient, in 1944, was swimmer Ann Curtis, who won more national AAU championships than any other woman, while the most recent winner was figure skater Evan Lysacek.

Scott Gomez played for his hometown team, the Alaska Aces and won the ECHL's Most Valuable Player award, while Curtis Brown, whose wife is a native of Southern California, played for the San Diego Gulls, and Bates Battaglia joined his younger brother Anthony on the Mississippi Sea Wolves roster.

The officials stated that Curtis had won by 5 centimetres.

A native of Ann Arbor, MI, Ali Curtis had an extraordinary career playing college soccer at Duke University, where he scored 53 goals and 28 assists from 1997 to 2000, and, in his junior season won the Hermann Trophy, and in his senior season won the MAC Award, both recognizing college soccer's best player.

In 1916 Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas, who was of partially Native American descent, won passage of a bill protecting the cemetery as a national park and providing some funds for maintenance.

HokieBird Curtis Dvorak ( 1995-96 ) won the National Cheerleading Association championship in 1996 and has appeared as Jaxson de Ville, mascot of the Jacksonville Jaguars since 1996.