Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prominent University professor once described the reading or "Beowulf" as an "intellectual luxury" for any man not seeking a doctor's degree in English. To the scholar this poem is more of a pleasant interest than a required task-but one which very few students find time to enjoy. Much the same attitude has often been taken towards the attendance of college chapel. The student finds it hard to make time enough at nine o'clock in the morning for religious exercises, even though he may recognize the benefit to be derived from them. Consequently, he never acquires the habit...
...such a course come the informational questions, not to test mere faithfulness of work but the grasp of the subject and the accuracy of the knowledge obtained. For this purpose catch questions are of doubtful value. All is one to the scholar but odds and ends slip away too easily from men whose grasp of the subject may be perfectly satisfactory but whose memory is less tenacious of details...
...credited, there is a sharp difference between the French society and the American. Where one was held back by the flimsiest red tape from giving an earned award, the other has recently gone to the opposite extreme, as the same news-item relates. Another X-ray scholar was Dr. Adolph Leray, who died a slow death in the same cause. The Carnegie Foundation has awarded 40,000 francs for his sacrifice, and has paid the award to his widow...
Professor Kittredge is without doubt the most distinguished scholar in the country who cannot boast the degree of Ph.D. there is a current superstition that he has never won it because none of his colleagues is learned enough to examine him. However, that may be, perhaps his lack of this burdensome dignity has helped to keep him free from the taint of pedantry and make him and entertaining lecturer in spite of his scholarship. It is safe to assert that his public lectures on the five great Shaksperian tragedies, to be given in Sanders Theatre this month will be much...
Count do Prorok is a Polish scholar who has been working with the French excavators on the site of ancient Carthage. He will tell of the discoveries which have already been made there and outline the possibilities for further advance...