Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...studious, used to roam the streets of his native Bloom field, N. J., reading a book. At an early age he attended grade school, migrating later to high school, thence to Rutgers College, where he is yet known as the most brilliant scholar who was ever graduated there. The legal profession then claimed him and Mr. Gilbert went to Harvard Law School, was awarded the degree of LL.B. cum laude...
...attempt to answer this question, Mr. Walter Leaf, famed Greek-scholar and chairman of the Westminster Bank, dropped something of a bombshell into the discussion. In order to attract capital to London-a necessary preliminary to removing the British restrictions on the export of gold-Mr. Leaf advocates an increase in the Bank of England rediscount rate from...
...chief, Lord Spencer, used to refer to him, was a man of staid Scotch qualities: intellectually honest, sober in all respects; a scholar of no mean repute, well-traveled and rich. His mind was practical. In Parliament he was formidable; in the country his speeches were direct, forceful and efficient; but he was no orator, and no man has ever rightly said of him that he was in any sense demagogic. He hated publicity and one of his favorite phrases was: "I don't think we need publish this urbi et orbi." His ability at quoting the classics was remarkable...
...British students are studying in the U. S. this year on the foundation established by Mrs. Henry P. Davison as a memorial to the late Mr. Davison. One of them, one Edward Christopher Moule, Davison scholar from Cambridge University, now in the junior class at Yale College, has won two important prizes in the annual awards. He received the Noyes-Cutter Prize of $50 for "rendering the Greek of the New Testament into modern English," and the Winthrop Prize of $200 for "the most thorough acquaintance [among Yale College juniors] with the Greek and Latin poets...
...manuscripts were duly examined by a committee, consisting of Daniel Gregory Mason (Chairman), Professor Walter Henry Hall and Dr. Walter Damrosch. The result, just announced by Mr. Mason: "None of the contestants showed sufficient promise to warrant his receiving the reward." So there will be no young American Pulitzer scholar in music who will sail this Summer. This is a blow to native pride. But hundred percenters may point out that our young musicians may receive just as good-or better-training by patronizing American teachers, than by journeying across the Atlantic and squandering $1,500 in Paris, Munich...