Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aside from promoting better international understanding, these fellowships will do their part to create a new appreciation of scholarship. Shallow materialistic philosophies have tended to throw too much emphasis upon that which is immediately useful. This attitude adopted in the colleges crowns the athlete with laurel and scorns the scholar toiling alone in his garret. But more and more true scholarship is coming into its own. As American universities develop greater background they are placing greater emphasis upon intellectual values. The recognition most appreciated by the true student is that which, like the Guggenheim Fellowships, not merely acknowledges past merit...
...number of cases on which Mrs. Sedgwick touched none was more interesting than that of a white-haired, stooping man whose name is renowned as an eminent Greek scholar and an active partisan of the League of Nations-Professor Sir Gilbert Murray. The Professor, as is well known, is actively interested in the occult. Ten years ago, he en- deavored to explain telepathic phenomena as being due to a sixth sense, a view in which Mrs. Sedgwick concurred...
...Greek scholar sent from the room...
Thus far, the addresses have been made principally from the legalist point of view. Professor Emerton will speak from the view-point of a scholar of church history and theology, subjects to which he has given much study. Graduating from Harvard in 1871, he went to Leipzig, where he took his Ph.D. in 1876. He became an instructor in History and German, and from 1878 to 1882 was Winn professor of ecclesiastical history at Harvard. Some of the books he has written are "An Introduction to the Study of the Middle Ages", "A Synopsis of the History of Continental Europe...
There was the gentleman who lost his bag of laundry; the Texan, presumably he came from the Lone Star state, who never saw his .45 automatic again; and the scholar, too, who mislaid his brief case three days in succession, and each day found it waiting for him at the office...