Augustana University Fryxell Scholarship Application

Eligibility requirements

Scholarship applicants must plan to choose a major in the Humanities. Eligible majors include American Studies, Anthropology, Art, Classics, Communication Studies, English, French, Journalism, Media Studies, Languages, Literatures, & Cultures, Music, Music Education, Multimedia Entrepreneurship, Philosophy, Religion, Spanish, and Theatre. Preference will be given to candidates who plan to major in English or Journalism.

Students awarded the Fryxell Scholarship must maintain both a major in the Humanities and a 3.0 GPA for annual renewal. Applications must be submitted no later than February 15. All applications will be reviewed following the February 15 deadline.

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Why would you like to pursue a major or minor in the Humanities area at Augustana? If you have selected a career or have a tentative plan for one, how do you see the study of language and literature contributing to your career goals?

Essay response

Please attach an essay of 600-700 words in which you analyze the following poem.

Hitler’s Alarm Clock, 1945

Für frieden freiheit und demokratie nie wieder faschismus millionen totle mahen.
(For peace, freedom and democracy, never again Fascism, millions of dead admonish).
—Written on a stone marker outside the house in Branau where Hitler lived as a boy.

No one saw the Jewish baker
snatch it from its bedside perch

and slip it into his over coat –
Hitler’s childhood room preserved

down to a pair of gabardine
short trousers hanging over his chair.

My uncle carried that clock
the rest of the war, woke each morning

to its empty crowing, then took it
back to Brooklyn. Three years later

his toddler sons, twin prodigies,
stole it from his drawer,

dismantling the mechanism beyond repair –
every wheel and cog and spring

spread across the living room table
like airplane wreckage he’d seen –

a senseless array of parts,
forlorn as disassembled countries,

or memories whose narratives
lie lost and scattered like ash.

—Ilyse Kusnetz

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