Word: scholar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Eddie Eagan, American Rhodes scholar, won the English amateur heavyweight boxing championship...
Died. Judge Mayer Sulzberger, 79, former President Judge of the Philadelphia Common Pleas Court and one of the most eminent figures of the Pennsylvania judiciary in a generation. He had a national reputation as a Jewish scholar and was the possessor of one of the finest private libraries in America...
...been remarked that the rewards of a scholar are not in popular fame, but in the intelligent appreciation of his fellow workers. Professor Goodale, as a teacher of natural history and director of the Botanic Gardens, won during his half-century of service the best of that appreciation. Few men have had a longer connection with the University than he, or have earned more respect and honor. In behalf of the University, the CRIMSON extends its deepest sympathy to those who share his loss...
...scholarship fund provided for by a benefactor who died more than 220 years ago. The land, which is situated in Dorchester near the present Codman Square, was bequeathed to the University by William Stoughton 1650 and was intended to furnish an income to go toward the support of a scholar, preferably from Dorchester. Although the income from the property has been irregular, rent from if has often been applied to scholarships, but the fund has now been increased sufficiently to assure one or more annual awards...
...their conductor, Arthur Bodanzky. This musician, who also directs the orchestra at the Metropolitan Opera House, is distinctly a great personality. Tall and gaunt, with the characteristic long face and high forehead of a musician, he is a bundle of nervous energy and fire. He is by temperament a scholar, even an austere scholar, whose greatest devotion is unearthing gems out of the dust and debris of music. As an example: He is giving a year's work to the orchestration for performance of an opera of the old English composer, Purcell, of which only the piano score remains...