Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...understanding and stimulating young minds, enter upon careers as teachers, presumably because they seem to fit nowhere else, and teaching looks easy. As educators they are a follow mockery, and one such pseudo-teacher can do more harm by disgusting young minds with academic pursuits, than ten real scholar-teachers can undo. To judge by the evidence, Trinity College has a dean of this type...
True scholarship is as easily distinguished from pedantry as day from night, once the true scholar is recognized. But the student who is not already a scholar cannot be blamed for confounding the two, especially since they have a specious resemblance. When a professor who is also a pedant poses as a scholar, such a student, if he is human, may be pardoned for saying: "If that be scholarship, I'll none...
Both pedant and scholar deal with the same materials. Their difference is in their methods. Both may be thought of as playing a game, with bones as counters. The pedant shuffles the bones about in the dust, toys with them, scrutinizes them under a high powered microscope, classifies them, and then leaves them--dry bones. The scholar goes through the same procedure, but before he quits the game, he breathes into his bones the breath of life, and from the dust of ages emerges a living idea. The scholar has connected them with life, and that vital connection marks...
...Functions of the Graduate Schools"; Professor Leon B. Pickerson of Dartmouth College will talk on "The Liberal College and Vocationalism"; and Dean Carl E. Seashore of the State University of Iowa will lecture on "The Placement Examination as a means of discovering and Motivating the Future Scholar Early." Delegates at the conference will be guests at the Yale-Army game on Saturday...
...Admiral Sims retired but continued his propaganda as scholar, officer, gentleman, for a better Navy and no bunk. Said he in 1923: "Press accounts of 'terrible atrocities' [of German submarines] were nothing but propaganda. German U-boat commanders aided in the rescue of the crews and passengers of ships they sank...