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At the last Honors Convocation, the faculty established a scholarship award in my name to honor an Outstanding Student from our department.
Walter W. Skeat, surely one of the greatest linguists of all time and an outstanding innovator of his day (late 19th century), was often given to testy replies when a correspondent to Notes and Queries either disagreed with him or speculated on the etymology of a word without having first looked it up in one of Skeat's works or, if the alphabetic section had appeared, in the Oxford English Dictionary . He was often nasty; but toward the latter part of the 1890s the crust softened, and he mellowed a bit.
The Scholars are chosen from outstanding students in the sciences, technologies and education who have chosen to pursue careers in teaching, at any level.
I would like to compliment our Annual Fund Chairman, Mike Harrison, for the outstanding results which were accomplished in 1998-1999 (the fiscal year ending June 30, 1999).
The LAT and WP do a good job explaining the German background to the story--last fall, Germany's Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, aware of the sensitive mix of the larger number of Kurds and Turks in his country, decided not to ask Italy to hand Ocalan over on an outstanding arrest warrant.