Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Olaf offered him by the King of Norway for his researches in Norwegian literature. Unlike the subject of Browning's verse he sees little glory attached to a "riband to stick in his coat", when voicing the independence of the West and the freedom of the true scholar, he scorns the tinseled tribute of royal appreciation...
...Phillips Brooks House in our time, no Harvard Union. Robinson Hall and Emerson Hall have come since. The University Museum has been doubled, and then there is the Library. It is the best university library in the country. It is more than that. If your idea of a scholar's library is a place where serious students will find a rich store of precious books which they can study under the most advantageous and liberal conditions, why, the Harvard Library will stand comparison with any university or city or State library in the World...
...upon his election as a corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. This signal honor which transcends the narrow bounds of countries and continents cannot add to a reputation already established internationally, for Professor Taussig's contributions to the science of economics have already won him recognition as a profound scholar and high authority. This latest honor is the more noteworthy since of the nine Americans now holding Corresponding Fellowships of the British Academy, five are Harvard men and four of those are members of the faculty...
...Elizabethan Playhouse and Other Studies,' published in 1912 and 1913. Since then important papers of his have appeared in the Modern Language Review, Studies in Philology, the Fortnightly Review, and in a number of other periodicals. Mr. Lawrence has no academic position, but is a private and independent scholar, of a type which is but too rare in this country...
...institutions. These facts, and the fact that many U.S. parents long to give their sons "a year abroad before going into business," have encouraged the organization of a preparatory school at Oxford, of and for Americans only, by Professor Edgar C. Taylor of Washington University. Himself a former Longfellow Scholar at Oxford (from Bowdoin), Prof. Taylor will employ both American and British colleagues in a school organized along the combined lines of an Oxford hall and a U. S. preparatory school. The school opens "soon...