“Marina toured the country for Underwood and was given a full scholarship to the University of California at Berkeley—the first Latina ever to have such a scholarship—and she’d graduated with honors.”

— Victor Villaseñor

Crazy Loco Love: A Memoir (2008)

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Deborah Foreman (1962) American actress

When asked by SportsHollywood "What is valley girl Julie Richman doing today? http://www.sportshollywood.com/askforeman.html

“The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school [in the 1960s] may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.”

Camille Paglia (1947) American writer

Source: Vamps and Tramps (1994), p. xx

“University of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley) is one of the most outstanding universities, and the Chemistry Department there ranks first amongst the universities of the world in research performance. This department was established by G. N. Lewis, who is considered to be the father of modern chemistry.”

C. N. R. Rao (1934) Indian chemist

Source: Climbing the Limitless Ladder: A Life in Chemistry (2010), p. 32

“Oh, Bertie, if I ever called you a brainless poop who ought to be given a scholarship at some lunatic asylum, I take back the words.”

P.G. Wodehouse book Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit

Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (1954)

“I had no idea in 1933 what economics was, but I did well in the subject from the start, and when I graduated in 1937 with first class honours LSE gave me a scholarship to do a PhD in industrial economics.”

W. Arthur Lewis (1915–1991) Saint Lucain economist

Lewis (1979). " Sir Arthur Lewis - Biographical http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/1979/lewis-bio.html," cited in: Toporowski, Jan. "Sir William Arthur Lewis (1915–91)." Fifty Key Thinkers on Development (2006): 144.

“This is insanity!"
"No, this is scholarship!”

Brandon Sanderson book Words of Radiance

Source: Words of Radiance

“Ploughing is a scholarship.”

Iolo Goch (1320–1398) Welsh bard

Source: Y Llafurwr (The Labourer), Line 77.

“I feel that only those who have been oppressed by the society and have been forced to live a backward life should given reservations. If Muslims want to study, then should be given scholarships, good schools, But Muslims and Christians can't have reservation as they have ruled our country.”

Subramanian Swamy (1939) Indian politician

On giving reservations to Muslims and Christians, as quoted in "Muslims and Christians shouldn't ask for reservation, says Subramanian Swamy" http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-muslims-and-christians-shouldn-t-ask-for-reservation-says-subramanian-swamy-1995886, DNA India (16 June 2014)
2011-2014

“Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship.”

Malcolm Bradbury (1932–2000) English author and academic

Cuts (1987) p. 42.

“The hearsay of hearsay is not admissible as scholarship.”

Michael Swanwick book Jack Faust

Source: Jack Faust (1997), Chapter 1, “Trinity” (p. 11)

“Marina toured the country for Underwood and was given a full scholarship to the University of California at Berkeley—the first Latina ever to have such a scholarship—and she’d graduated with honors.”

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