Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...coming more and more to be looked upon as a fit business for college men. This is due to two factors. The economics and political science faculties of our universities have for years been graduating men with idealistic plans for improving social conditions. And the example of successful scholar-politicians, such as Lodge, Root, and Wilson has inspired other educated men to look to public life for careers...
...Society wishes to announce again this year that the office of First Marshal is a purely honorary one, given to the man who in the opinion of the Society is its first scholar; and that the Secretary is the sole executive officer...
...regards the student, it is well for those so inclined to consider the opportunities of a scholar's career at this time. The history of the war, for example, will probably be best written in America, where partiality may be avoided. Undoubtedly the ideas which may solve the problem of militarism will arise in pacific America. Pupils often grow up to instruct their elders. May not the United States become in many things teacher of the world...
...Library, naturally in the lime light at this time, receives most instructive discussion at the hands of Professor Coolidge. One finishes a perusal of his article with a better understanding of the peculiar nature of a great scholar's library and some insight into the problems of administration with which the management has to struggle. While Professor Coolidge does not make much of the point, it is nevertheless evident that the Library has suffered from the war, and is in need of gifts to maintain it and enable growth. Mr. Lodge, in "The Meaning of a Great Library," gives...
Below the symbol of the scholar on the column to the left is the quotation in bronze: "The multitude of the wise is the welfare of the world."--Wisdom of Solomon...