Princeton Junior Named Gilder Lehrman History Scholar

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<p><a href="http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S14/64/98K90/index.xml?section=prospective%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S14/64/98K90/index.xml?section=prospective&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p><a href="http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/student2.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/student2.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>“Princeton junior Charles Stone is one of 15 students nationwide chosen [from a pool of more than 300 applicants representing 195 colleges and universities] to participate in an intensive summer program sponsored by the New York-based Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.”</p>

<p>“The Gilder Lehrman History Scholars Program, inaugurated in 2003, is a competitive summer scholarship program in American history for outstanding college sophomores and juniors. The program, based in New York City, has been designed to … reward undergraduates who have demonstrated superb research and writing skills in the field of American history…”</p>

<p>Princeton’s scholar was joined this year by a student each from Yale and Columbia representing the Ivy League. Since the founding of this scholarship program the Ivy League and other leading schools have been well-represented. Among those schools Columbia leads with a scholar every year:</p>

<p>(Schools With More Than One Scholar Since Founding of Award)</p>

<p>4 Columbia
3 Princeton
3 Yale
2 Grinnell
2 Harvard
2 William and Mary</p>

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<p>I can see Byerly's spin coming.</p>

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<p>Wow, Grinnell is the only LAC that made it up on that short list!</p>