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Word: scholar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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While Professor Conway, the noted English scholar, was at Harvard two years ago, he delivered most of these lectures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Books | 11/13/1928 | See Source »

Died. Professor William A. Speck, 64, famed Goethe scholar, curator of classical German literature in the Yale University library; after a long illness; in New Haven. With his own funds and those of others, Prof. Speck gathered together the finest Goethe collection outside Germany, the finest Faustiana in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 22, 1928 | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

Granting the evidence for Columbia's abhorrence of the mono-minded Ph.D, her new undergraduate program seems a mere distinction without a difference. The only clearly defined change, that of allowing the scholar and the professional man to specialize immediately on entering college, is not to be applauded. It was possible under the old elective system at Harvard and was considered one of its most glaring faults...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALL COLUMBIA IN THREE PARTS | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...facts about Lincoln's earlier life and his times than have ever before been assembled; marshaled in the compelling order and presented with the eloquence and dramatic force of which Senator Beveridge was master. It is beyond question the definitive work on its subject and period, illuminating for the scholar, profoundly interesting for the general reader. 2 vols...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Important New Fall Books | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...Closely related to this type is the student who by temperament and ambition is a scholar, and for whom the most effective college course is the one which gives him the opportunity to go far toward the bottom of some field of scholarly interest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

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