Word: bookworm
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...must enlarge on the eighteenth century definition of a scholar. A scholar of the present day is not a bookworm, or a mere absorber of the learning of other people, but he is a pioneer in knowledge, an investigator capable of research. A scholar is not a recluse, and though he may be more or less withdrawn from the world, it is only to live on a grander scale, and with large hope of serving mankind...