Word: runge
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...problem lies with the present pronunciamento that the rising pedagog must publish if he hopes to climb to a worthwhile rung on the academic ladder. Whether or not the command is an intangible one, there are too many instances of the scholar's success being based wholly on the number of fly-leaves bearing his name. It has been said somewhere that the true scholar never creates; he delves into the past and criticizes. Practically all academic presses are engaged in printing and binding these gleanings. The creation of intellectual curiosity, and then of intellectual appreciation, in the minds...
...tentative proposal that the master's degree in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences be abolished seems, as Mr. Lowell says, "a drastic solution" for the problem of over-crowding in that division of the university. The A.M. degree lias long been a rung in the academic ladder, and many persons would no doubt consider its removal a handicap to ambitious scholars. But for many years it has not amounted to very much,--in fact, in some of the English universities it can be won as easily as the A. B. by merely paying a few pounds more...
When the fall of Antwerp became known the church bells were rung...