Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from the human standpoint, the danger of over-specialization exists to a great degree in a university of graduates. With the efficient elimination of friction between the scholar and the simple seeker of a baccalaureate degree devotees of higher learning are apt to lose one of their few remaining contacts with the world. Just this lack of varied experience prevents the scholar from becoming a great teacher. Since the American plan of advanced study well nigh excludes its followers from the untheorized actions of their fellow men, it is to a certain degree incomplete...
...clock in Harvard 2. Longfellow is the poet without whom home is not home and a library is just a collection of books. Yet that this is far from being the true estimate of his merit seems the truth. It is claimed that he was a scholar, a true virtuoso, and a legitimate claimant to the deanship of American letters. I will seek the truth on this matter...
...Peabody has been described as "an American with an English school and university training . . . an all round athlete, and yet a churchman; a scholar and yet a very graceful and sophisticated man of the world." Groton is his life-work as St. Mark's is Dr. Thayer's. The latter, "an accomplished churchman and a successful and tactful manager," took his chair...
...statements, combined with recent light thrown on the educational facilities at Nancy, broadens the entire field of foreign study. It should eventually result in putting the travelling fellowship on better than a pre-war basis and doing away entirely with that enormous prejudice in the mind of the graduate scholar in favor of the larger English universities...
...tremendous of "bread" courses. Doubtless the German universities have torn a leaf from the merits of the American Business College. But also the have torn foreign appreciation for abstract learning which is so scarce in America. It is hard to conceive of a field more attractive to scholar and student alike, crowded as it is with thoughts new and old, with precepts practical and otherwise...