Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University of Toulouse, is expected to arrive at New York today on the liner "La Savoie", and to reach Cambridge probably on Wednesday to take up his duties as exchange professor of French Literature. Professor Guy, who teaches French literature at Toulouse in addition to being Dean, is a scholar of unusual distinction and is the author of various works on the literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It is announced that in addition to his half-course on the subject of "The Sonnet in French Literature", Professor Guy will give a series of public lectures...
This attitude, expressive of the position to which Harvard has advanced, comes as a call for sober consideration of developments deeply affecting the life of the University. Scholastic problems, the improvement of instruction, the common attitude towards the scholar, the position of the unclassified student, have assumed an importance which cannot be denied. Upon the successful solution of these problems will depend, in great measure, the well-being of the University...
...least in importance among the matters discussed by the president is the position of the scholar. The amount of respect with which high rank in college is regarded, he maintains, is not yet satisfactory. The attitude of the undergraduate toward scholarship compares unfavorably with the attitude of the Law School...
...community and deserve the recognition of alumni and the public: but the man of solely scholastic attainments should at least be rated above the "leader," who gets the benefits of neither the executive, the athletic, nor the scholastic training, which the college offers. Not in failing to recognize the scholar, but in tolerating the loafer, do the undergraduate world and the public make a great mistake...
Just what happened to the Assyrian host has not been known. The record brought back by the American scholar is not yet completely translated. But the more announcement of the discovery is very interesting and whets the appetite anew for the kind of research in which American universities were engaging enthusiastically when the war interrupted it. To Chicago also will go a quantity of materials uncovered by Dr. Breasted in Egypt. The whole story of the finding and deciphering of these ancient records, the Egyptian hieroglyphics, the Assyrian cuneifornt, and other difficult inscriptions, is one of the fascinating tales...