Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Smith with fortunate results mixes the scholar with his impossible Treitschkean system of philosophy with John Paul and his ideas. Result, a combination transferring the tailor to the saver of a great shipbuilding firm, and the scholar to his private secretary...
...regard to national needs. It makes little difference what precise place he occupies in the long range of opinion from the highest of high protection to the freest of free trade. Many men who call themselves practical have gone astray by lack of economic study. This deficiency a scholar like Professor Taussig will be able to supply. --Philadelphia Public Ledger...
...situation has become so acute that these two sides of collegiate activity are completely estranged. The athlete and the scholar usually regard each other with mutual suspicion at first sight. Very few men indeed have been able to unite physical prowess and intellectual distinction, although last year's Phi Btta Kappa list contained some notable exceptions. There is no reason why every student should not follow their example to a certain degree, with the practically unlimited time at his disposal. For unless it is driven to an unhealthy extreme, neither work nor play need occupy more than half...
Although he was a scholar better than the average, he had no outside activities in the University. He prepared at Brookline High School...
...picturesque figure," Professor Palmer has written, "has left us, a prodigious scholar, a stimulating teacher, a heroic character, a playful and widely-loved friend." And at the close--"That elvish figure, with the unconventional dress and slouching step, that face which blended the infant and sage, that total personality, as amused, amusing and intent on righteousness as Socrates himself--happy the university that had for a long time so vitalizing a presence...