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Dean Gordon Jennings Laing, famed philologist, Professor of Latin at Chicago and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Literature: "No one has the ghost of a chance of being an effective teacher in any grade of school unless he has both a critical and constructive mind. Even though he be famous for the range of his erudition, though he be as full of information as an encyclopedia, as systematic in the organization and conduct of his courses as a railroad time table, yet if he is wholly without the urge to investigation and does nothing to stimulate scholarly...
Died. Dr. Max Winkler, 63, philologist, since 1902 Professor of German Language and Literature at University of Michigan; at Ann Arbor, Mich...
Died. Alfredo Trombetti, 63, famed Italian philologist, of heart failure while bathing off the Lido, Venice...
...college of Liberal Arts, as the aeronautical experiments carried on further down the river by means of the Guggenheim Foundation. Indeed, the resemblance is far deeper than this mere similarity of proportion, since the modern study of the humanities is really in the scientific manner. The archaeologist, the philologist, the historian must be quite as definitely and concretely trained in his own work as the student of chemical research is in his, and, what is more important, must be nearly as well equipped financially. The possibilities of the cloister as the best milieu for academic life were exhausted some centuries...
...Cleveland torch was Abraham A. Katz, scholar. No rabbi, he knows the windings of Talmudic law expertly. No philologist, he knows the Semitic dialects. Once he decided to memorize every word and its definition in Webster's 2,373-page Dictionary. He succeeded through several letters, until necessity forced him to earn a living. He became an expert accountant, then auditor. He saved money and invested it. Soon he had his competence. He could return to his books...