Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your item concerning "Rhodes Scholar Potency" [TIME, July 18] has been called to my attention...
...Rhodes Scholarship is tenable for three years, and the stipend is now 400 pounds sterling or $2,000 per year. No restriction is placed upon a Rhodes Scholar's choice of studies...
DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCH-BISHOP?Willa Gather?Knopf ($2.50). A large part of Miss Gather's pre-eminence as a novelist is due to her ability as a scholar. Her offering for this season is more scholarly than creative?a reconstruction of the episcopal works of the first Roman Catholic bishop of her beloved New Mexico, Jean Marie Latour.* She draws him with esthetic reverence, an immaculate conception of a missionary in buckskins who, lost and athirst in the desert, still retained elegance, distinction and "a kind of courtesy toward himself, toward his beasts, toward the juniper tree before...
Professor Adolph Goldschmidt of the University of Berlin is another European scholar who will reside at the University during the year. One of the greatest living medievalists, he will give seminars on medieval illumination and sculpture. In the first half-year he will speak at the Germanic Museum, and in the second half, at the New Fogg Museum...
...Lawrence Lowell of Harvard; to one-time (1899-1921) President Arthur Twining Hadley of Yale; to William Rainey Harper, first president of University of Chicago; to David Starr Jordan, onetime (1891-1913) president of Stanford University; to Nicholas Murray Butler, presi- dent of Columbia University; to several others as scholar presidents. This correspondent was President of Yale University, James Rowland Angell...