Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Indeed, it is rather grotesque that he should have any part in the business ?he, Cabot Lodge of the foremost Massachusetts elite, a scholar, a gentleman of refinement, to concern himself with the sansculottes of Russia, to mix in a proletarian problem. Aside from his other important duties, the Subcommittee was obviously no place...
...Cloan, aged 67, is a National Liberal and was Lord Chancellor under Premier Asquith from 1912 to 1915. He is probably one of the most liberal minded peers in the House of Lords, besides being a man of gigantic intellectual gifts. A foremost authority on legal matters, a scholar with numerous degrees attached to his name, and author of several important and interesting philosophical works, it is said that he makes a habit of reading a book each morning before breakfast, a task which he accomplishes with lightning rapidity, and in such a way he keeps up with...
...opening of college the following men were chosen for the business department; Robert Gray Allen '26, of Andover; Robert Brown Morrison Barton '26 of Pikesville, Maryland; Edward Walker Marshall '26 of Portland, Maine; and Reginald Franklin Conroy Vance '26 of Fredericksburg, Virginia. In addition, John Bird '24, Davidson Scholar from England, was elected as an honorary member...
...lecture, the Archbishop sought to show the effect on religion of Erasmus as a scholar, Luther as a religious hero, and Loyola as an ascetic. He described at especial length the psychology of mysticism devised by Loyola...
Prior to the Volstead act the colleges had their own code regarding drink. It was forbidden to bring intoxicants into university buildings. Drunkenness, if public, was "conduct unbecoming a scholar and a gentleman." Moreover, the man who was publicly intoxicated lost caste with his fellows. They made a nice distinction between the celebration of football victories, club elections and the like, and real addiction to drink. This state of affairs was the culmination of fifty years of growing moderation. The old days when the few men were drunkards, and the many teetotalers were yielding to an almost European practice...