Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Never was there a scholar who was less of a pedant, or a statesman who was more impatient with empty forms and artificial contrivances and more anxious to lay hold of living realities. The League of Nations was to him not so much an international covenant as a process of international co-operation. His unyielding stand against modifying or attaching reservations to the covenant of the League was based, we may reasonably suppose, upon his conviction that the avowed enemies of some of the clauses of the covenant were really seeking to find a way to attack the life...
Died. The Rev. Pincus Minkowsky, 67, famed Jewish scholar, cantor of the Moscow synagogue until Bolshevik persecution caused his flight; in Boston...
...notorious example--will appreciate how useful a device must be which automatically and without expenditure of physical energy turns away from his door every socially-inclined acquaintance who presents himself. And as a strategic aid this respected appliance will be without a peer. Suppose, for instance, that an industrious scholar, after an evening of exacting toil, is regaling a few intimates with a case of oranges. All he has to do to secure absolute privacy is to turn the sign to "Go" if that is the word selected to indicate that an intellectual quarantine has been established...
Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve died at Baltimore, Jan. 9. He war "America's greatest classical scholar," and one of the world's greatest scholars in any field. He had been Professor of Greek at Johns Hopkins since 1876, but had retired from active service in 1915 because of failing eyesight and hearing...
Died. Dr. Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, 92, famed classical scholar, at Baltimore. (See page...