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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Archbishop Nahan Soderblom, Primate of Sweden, who is now visiting the United States, will lecture at the University on Tuesday evening, November 27. His lecture on "The Scholar, the Ascetic, and the Hero in Religion--Erasmus, Loyola, and Luther," will be delivered in the New Lecture Hall at eight o'clock, and will be open to the public...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOST BELOVED MAN IN NORTHERN EUROPE COMING | 11/5/1923 | See Source »

Although he has made a detailed study of Leonardo's life and works Mr. Lieb has made it clear that he intends to expound the practical rather than the artistic side of the life of the famous Italian scholar, in his lecture tonight. He believes that every student knows more or less about Leonardo as an artist but few realize that he was one of the greatest military engineers of all time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEONARDO AS AN ENGINEER WILL BE LIEB'S SUBJECT | 11/1/1923 | See Source »

...great books? And where, by the way, are your own books? From these thousands of American colleges and universities, how many 'vital, creative books are born? The university of Walden Pond had "Whim" written above its doorposts, but it bred literature. There was once a type of productive scholar who may be described as "he that scattereth, and yet increaseth", but your amazing and multifarious activity is not much of it wastage rather than growth? Simplify! Coordinate! Find yourselves, and then lift up your hearts...

Author: By Burke BOYCE G, | Title: KINDLY, HUMAN VOLUME OF ESSAYS | 10/26/1923 | See Source »

...instituted lectures for English A at 2 o'clock this afternoon in the New Lecture Hall. The subject upon which he will speak is "Education and Harvard College". In connection with this lecture the members of the course will be required to read Emerson's essay on the American scholar and finally to write a theme dealing with the subject treated in both the lecture and the reading...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEAN GREENOUGH WILL GIVE FIRST ENGLISH A LECTURE | 10/11/1923 | See Source »

...Herbert Henry Asquith is Britain's Scholar-Statesman. His early schooling was done in London. In 1871 he became a classical scholar of Balliol College, Oxford, and subsequently got a " first " in Litterae Humaniores (1874). After that he went in for the Law, joined Lincoln's Inn in 1876 and "took silk " in 1890. His political career started four years earlier. In 1886 he became M. P. for East Fife, a constituency he represented continuously until the general election of 1918, when he was defeated. For two years Mr. Asquith remained out of the House and then came back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Book | 10/8/1923 | See Source »

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