Word: savants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Georges Marin, Paris savant, stated that the number of women having slight growths of hair on their lips and chins have increased 10 per cent. Cocktails, cigarettes and certain chemicals used as ingredients in cosmetics are the ascribed causes...
...live for an by the exercise of specialized functions only, so long will society be chaos. The surgeon who sees all life in terms of physical derangements, the merchant who lives in a world of leather or of cheese, the artist who knows nothing but tone or color, the savant without capacity for action--these men lack the ability for coordination which makes human relations intelligible and intelligent. Business men frequently are so helpless in fields other than their own, that they cannot choose service intelligently; professional men generally are slacking in perception of educational principles, that the only distinctions...
...accepted by all; but the true result of the situation has just been pointed out: the supposedly stray calories have gone to build brain. Mr. Stewart, discoverer of this fact, frankly admits that Yale has now gained intellectual ascendency over Harvard, due to the new social prominence accorded the savant in New Haven. Not that culture is sought for its own sake; no, praise God. "Yale is Yale, and Yale men are Yale men",--world without end, amen...
Although the University will suffer a distinct loss in the temporary absence of Professor Hart, who is to lecture at the Sorbonne, it is especially fortunate in securing in exchange such an eminent scholar as Dean Henri Guy of the University at Toulouse. An author, lecturer, savant, of the highest rank, the name of Henri Guy has long been known to American students. He is a worthy successor to Professors Cestre and LevyBruhl and will be welcome not only to the University but to lovers of French literature among the general public...