Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jack," said famed Samuel Johnson, "has great variety of talk. Jack is a scholar, Jack has the manners of a gentleman." Jack (John Wilkes, 1727-1797) was also a rowdy, a beerhouse brawler, a blasphemer, a fornicator, a publisher of lewd and libelous literature. He was expelled from the House of Commons, outlawed, deported and cast into prison when, upon his return, King George III refused to pardon him. . . . But Whigs, great, rich, respected, thronged his prison cell, for Jack was a Hero. The freeholders of Middlesex had four times elected him to Parliament and four times the Commons...
...Duke of Sermoneta, famed Italian Oriental scholar: "Modern Christianity has become so truly European and non-Asiatic that it is no longer comprehensible to Asiatic minds...
...beauty has lived and died in happy ignorance of even the rudimentary principles of that science. It is high time that it was recognized, primarily at Harvard and in America at large, that the two types of men exist, that the teacher is not necessarily an inferior scholar to the research worker, that the two are rarely combined, and that both are needed in any liberal and well balanced system of education...
Professor Gilson's Harvard lectures are all over except for the echoes scheduled in the next few days. His fame as a scholar and philosopher had long preceded his visit which revealed above all else a very charming gentleman. Those fortunate enough to have attended either of his courses or his series or public lectures will long remember with what an unusual combination of objectivity and sympathy he dealt with the various representatives of Medieval thought. They were presented not as "ists" perambulating a pet "ism" but as men straining their eyes to catch a glint of the truth behind...
...strode a swarthy, heavy-set gentleman of 52, with a scholar's accent and the gestures of a man of action, Dr. Suzzallo. Among the things that he said to the schoolteachers of Oregon, things which surprisingly, they applauded, were the following...