Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then the alumni met, and a more distinguished group of graduates it would have been hard to find. To officiate at this meeting they had obtained the services of that scholar-politician who is often called "the best U. S. speech-maker": onetime (1916-21) Secretary of War Newton D. Baker. In the gathering were: the first man to receive a Ph. D. from Johns Hopkins, Dr. Ernest G. Sihier** of New York University; the first man to receive a Johns Hopkins M. D., Dr. Charles R. Bardeen of the University of Wisconsin; the first woman to receive...
...ditches, into which many of the inexpert fall, and are buried. There may be too much. But reform comes best from within. "Liberty" is not a magazine, but an intrinsic conception. The "What Price Glory" of graduate scholarship will be written in its own due time by a scholar (and there are many such) who possess that conception. F. I. Carpenter '24. October 29th...
...digging effective and useful ditches. But these men do not receive their doctorate. Most of them are lucky to get their Master's degree. Not a few get no degree at all. If more of those who see in a momentary liking for literature the life of the scholar, could realize that one need not go in on a profession to enjoy some of its fruits, there would be fewer potential plumbers in the graduate school of arts and sciences of Harvard University...
...Hughes is both a novelist and a scholar with a thirst for the sensational. (His sister-in-law, Mrs. Adella Prentiss Hughes is Tsarina of the Cleveland Orchestra.) Musicians know him for his able works: American Composers, Music Lovers' Cyclopedia. Rabid novel readers recall such things as: The Thirteenth Commandment, Souls for Sale. Then suddenly, last January (TIME, Jan. 25), Mr. Hughes bounded into the public eye as the interpreter of a new George Washington. Citizens were shocked by his speech before the Sons of the American Revolution in Washington, D. C. Senators flayed him. So Mr. Hughes...