Word: historian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Furthermore, it is a mistake to call English 5 simply "an advanced composition course." To participate in its activities one must be not only able to write moderately well, but one must also be a philosopher, an historian, a critic, poet, sociologist, and politician, all in one English 5 transcends any limits that the word "composition" may try to put on it, and furnishes real food for thought, which, when digested, frequently re-appears on paper...
...dissenting opinions on questions of the reasonableness of legislation are proving starting points for constructive reasoning, and he is likely to be counted a maker of the bill of rights as Marshall was of the provisions fixing the powers of the general government. Furthermore, he was a great legal historian and later a leader in the movements which have remade the science of law in the present century...
...professionally impartial Chairman Sir John Eldon Bankes, a retired Lord Justice of Appeal, will be assisted by ex-War Correspondent Sir Philip (Now It Can be Told) Gibbs, Dame Rachel Crowdy of the League of Nations élite antinarcotic squad, Editor-Historian J. Alfred Spender, Lancashire Industrialist Sir Kenneth Lee, Dean Harold Cooke Gutheridge, Law Professor at Cambridge University and Sir Thomas Allen, chief of the Socialist Co-operative Insurance Society, a thorn in British munitions makers' sides...
...University of Pittsburgh one day last summer went three pedagogs, sent by the American Association of University Professors to investigate the dismissal from Pitt's faculty of Historian Ralph E. Turner (TIME, July 16). Pitt's Chancellor John Gabbert Bowman* said the dismissal was due to Dr. Turner's "sneering, sarcastic, flippant attitude toward religion." But all Pittsburgh believed it was because of Dr. Turner's loud liberalism...
Lyon Gardiner Tyler grew up to be a historian, genealogist and president of Virginia's College of William & Mary from 1888 to 1919. His first wife died in 1921 and in 1923, aged 70. he married 35-year-old Sue Ruffin. On the difference between the world into which their grandfather was born and the one in which they will die, Lyon Gardiner Tyler's two sons by his second marriage had last week not yet begun to speculate, being respectively nine and five years...