Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well for the future. Churches are expected to share in the compensation paid to the student, and normally the amount: paid the student is divided equally between the School and the Church. The School has available about $16,000 of scholarship money, from four different sources. Corporation Scholarships. Andover Scholar ships. Hopkins Shares, and the Williams Fund. In previous years this amount has been spent in full, and during 1922-23 was overdrawn. Last year there was an unexpended balance of $2,800 standing to the credit of these funds, which reverts to the principal. The new plan will, therefore...
Having traveled far and wide on the continent, he went, after his Oxford days were over, to explore Central Asia. His visits to Persia, Siam, the Pamirs, Indo-China and Korea were not the fitful visits of a tourist, but the premeditated acts of a scholar who traveled to discover and store a fund of knowledge that books could not give...
...great in ability. As plain George Curzon he went to Eton where Esher, Minto, Balfour, the Beresfords, Midleton, Rosebery?all men who have left their mark on the pages of Britain's recent history?were closing the chapters of their Eton life. From Eton he went to Oxford's scholar college, Balliol, where like Lord Oxford and Asquith, he carved a brilliant academic career...
...premeditated acts of a scholar...
...Administration of criminal justice," he said, "is admittedly the weakest point in American polity. Thus far what is doing toward improvement is superficial, spasmodic, and often blundering. No subject of research affords greater possibilities. With an endowed chair which would enable a competent scholar to devote his life to this subject, in view of the complete library facilities which the school possesses, in view of the opportunities at hand in and about Boston, and in view of the national character of the student body and especially the large numbers of law teachers who come for graduate research, there is every...