Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles Townsend Copeland has been one of those rare scholars who have truly appraised the personal relation between teacher and pupil. He relied more on direct contact than on lectures, books and formulas, but his courses nevertheless have been popular, and the fame of his readings has traveled far beyond collegiate circles. But it has been by summoning the members of his composition course "English 23," to his rooms in Hollis to read aloud their themes to him, and by gathering others together on winter evenings to exchange ideas about everything this side of the moon, that his influence...
...amused themselves and their countrymen last week with the ancient and honorable (in England) sport of shouting hard names at each other in the newspapers. To the U. S., often justly accused by Great Britain of lacking dignity, untidy squabblings in the press by its wise, important people are rare curiosities...
...military headquarters. Possibly it would not have helped him anyway. A delicate question faced him. A great Democrat, he had no Christmas present for the greatest Democrat, President Woodrow Wilson. The shops around Luxembourg were bare. He particularly needed a notable present, different from anyone's else; intrinsically rare and of great value. He decided to give Mr. Wilson Kaiser Wilhelm...
Italian villages on the Mediterranean. Sunlight, blue sky and water on the Riviera. Stimulating talks with fellow-scholars in quiet Oxford closes, in dingy European university towns. The calm, still air of delightful studies in the great libraries and museums where Europe protects rare volumes and manuscripts from the ravaging American millionaire. These things beckoned to many a great Johns Hopkins scholar last week...
...moreover, that may ideas are impressed on the perhaps forever, because the author invokes a lasting image for us by writing; for example: "Such a cell is an individual soldier of the army, having his proper place in the company of his fellows-." For Professor Hill is of those rare and fortunate men who having something worth while to say, can say it as well as it could be said...