Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appointed professor of the history of art and later as assistant professor. In 1920 he was appointed professor of the history of art at Harvard. At present he is on leave of absence in Europe. His selection as exchange professor recalls the fact that he was the one American scholar in art and architecture who was singled out by the French government during the war to assist in the plans for the reconstruction or preservation of the monuments of France which were damaged in the war. The present Harvard representative in France is Professor Irving Babbitt...
Truly the old ideas are going by the board when the "impossible" happens, and football players prove students, even scholars with gold keys. The days of sarcasm about the "athletic course at Harvard" are over; and the ancient compliment can be altered to "an athlete and a scholar...
...remarkable legal institution in the world. It is something just a shade more than a governing body. It is a sort of super-Senate, defining the conditions under which government functions. Mr. Warren's is the first adequate history of that unique body. He is a distinguished legal scholar. Most of all, as Assistant District Attorney during the Wilson administration, he had an unexcelled opportunity to see the Supreme Court at work and to gain a practical first-hand knowledge of its functions. He acknowledges, however, that the lack of proper perspective on the last 30 years makes adequate...
...life-work of some patient penman, the fancies of an artist "all shaven and shorn". "Look two and two go the priests, then monks with cowls and sandals. And the penitents dressed in white shirts, a-holding the yellow candles." They are a curious collection, full of interest for scholar and antiquarian; food for the imagination and the artistic taste of anyone who examines them...
Simultaneously with a discussion in the Yale Corporation of the desirability of retaining Latin and Greek as requirements for the B. A. degree, arrives in the United States, and in New Haven, Sir Frederick Kenyon, noted classical scholar and director of the British Museum...