Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...window. He urged Dean Pound to refuse the offer of the University of Wisconsin, asserted that it was to emphasize this request that the 700 stood in the cold beneath. Said he: "Dean Pound is making a choice between scholarship and administration. The profession of the Law needs a scholar today more than ever before...
...fields of battle. But on the little side street by the water-front, not far from the Franz-Josef bridge, there were no bright lights. There was only the faint glow from the garret window of a weather-beaten old house, where, working far into the night, a busy scholar was translating Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" into Albanian...
...very prominent position under the Chief of Staff of the British Army. Yet he seemed to fit perfectly into the office in the Widener Library stacks where he was studying several books on General Lee spread out before him on the desk. Someone once spoke of him as the "scholar in arms" and the name has stuck...
...this on itself. An upstart in the Harvard world, it has seen fit to ignore the fact that it has a perfectly respectable ancestry, although not of the best traditional stock, deriving from the long-ago time when Professor Dunbar convinced his colleagues that an economist might be a scholar. With the cock-sureness of youth, the School chose to demonstrate in its own way its preference for such things as the newest classic slogan, the clarion call to "Take Baby...
...fact that the Chancellor is a Republican, an able administrator, a brilliant scholar-A. B. and A. M. of Indiana University, Ph.D. of Clark University, LL.D. of Indiana University and State University of Iowa, sometime student at Jena, Heidelberg, Leipzig, Harvard, President of Idaho University before he went to Kansas University in 1920-focuses upon him the agitated attention of the usually peaceful town of Lawrence where the University is situated...