Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...graduate who does not forget and yet does not find his vision stunted. A recent CRIMSON editorial described vividly one such man "who closed his desk at the War office at four and at six was delivering a lecture on aesthetics at Oxford." A classic example is Mathew Arnold, scholar and gentleman, seer and publicist...
...neither the flair nor the facility of a writer. He loves poetry without being in the least a poet. He 'gets' philosophy without being technically expert or agile or spiritually profound. He admires scholarship truly and yet has not the patience nor the exactness of the scholar...
...scholar and critic M. Fay has won an international reputation. In the past four years he has written a number of keen articles on American ideas and American politics, which have appeared in the "Correspondant" and other French periodicals. Last winter he published a series of articles on French literature from 1880 to 1924 which have attracted wide attention. M. Fay is one of the leaders of the modern French school, and he has been in great demand as a lecturer on the modern theories of criticism...
...this all. "People are too busy in these days to make love . . . to write billets-doux." And the automobile is of course to blame. The loss of these dainty confections of literature is truly tragic. Yet the squinting scholar may smile amidst the grime of a blowout to thank his otherwise cursed machine for preventing the literary effusions of future Pamelas...
...main it is governed by his predominating intellectual trait. He admires manhood vastly more than scholarship. He has yet to learn the important place pure scholarship holds in the general plan of things. He is sure to learn this in time. If he finds in the scholar the man he is looking for, the scholar can lead him anywhere. But the tremendous forces that have made Ferguson what he is have left him where he refuses to see the scholar if the man is not there. It is said that he will learn nothing. No candid observer could claim that...