Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eric Geddes, less the scholar-diplomat, more the born executive, came young to the U. S. from England and forgot social caste while he worked for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Soon he went out to build bridges, tracks and soaring trestles in India. Returning, he won further experience with the British North-Eastern Railway...
...held in affection among his colleagues and by graduate students, Professor Coolidge was not "popular" among undergraduates. Respected he was, yes, but not "popular". Too much of a scholar to play the demagogue; too serious in his purpose to provide sideshows; too busy in his cause to display the classroom antics whereof "traditions" are made, too sincere to curry favor, his loss is the greater...
Professor E. F. Gay, Professor of Economic History wrote: "No one can fill, in the University and in the nation, the place left by Professor Coolidge. He was a great scholar and trainer of scholars in the wide field of modern history. He was a great librarian, building up, with rare catholicity of interest, a treasure-house and working-place for scholars. Here I wish especially to bring tribute to him as the great editor of "Foreign Affairs". When the Council on Foreign Relations established this journal, Profesors Coolidge was chosen as its editor because he was preeminently qualified...
...Oklahoma, mayor of Claremont, California, the humorist has been so long an important critic of politics that his qualifications as a practitioner are worthy of consideration. True he is a humorist, but he is a serious humorist. His comic spirit is no capricious tease, or polished wit, or jovial scholar, but the ghost of a shrewd, observant Yankee with twinkling eyes and pursed lips. It is the spirit of Mark Twain, or Josh Billings, or even Abraham Lincoln, people are saying. And his wit is surpassed only by his esoteric knowledge of his chosen field...
...Butler is right in his contention that the best teacher is the scholar of widest knowledge and appreciation, but it is disconcerting to have the president of a university which stands foremost in graduate enrollment so deprecate specialization. For he based his plea for endowments upon the great service to complex civilization that university trained men are doing. And certainly it is not the dilettante, however interesting he may be, who is making possible the refinement of living, but the specialist impervious to every other interest who burrows until he unearth his treasure. His importance to society, his conception...