Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unhappy hero is a Phi Beta Kappa scholar with suppressed desires to be an athlete and a gentleman. Into his life comes Miss Wisconsin, co-ed from an enemy institution and winner of a beauty contest. The next day is crowded for him, what with winning the track meet, making the best fraternity and collecting the best wife among the local coeds...
...reflect that the people who have been applauding me have received no benefit and that, indeed, whatever benefit they might have had, has been killed in the applause, I am sore at heart and I lament and I feel as though I had spoken altogether in vain." Scholar, he was lecturing to scholars. His words were not meat, he thought, for the hounds of the press and, with an almost pathetic earnestness, he tried to shoo them away.* First, the Dean insisted that the New Testament contained no detailed guidance either for the making of sermons or for the conduct...
Lowes Praises Elizabethan Scholar...
...Lawrence," declared Professor Lowes, "is in my estimation the foremost scholar of the world on the subject of Elizabethan drama. It is by the greatest good fortune that we have been able to procure his services for the University...
...diagnosed: "For 30 years Lodge was called 'the scholar in politics,' and doubtless got a good deal of quiet pleasure when he read that phrase in the newspapers or heard the toastmaster roll it out at banquets. Then came Wilson out of Princeton University to the Presidency, and people began to call him 'the scholar in politics.' Thus was a rivalry staged...