Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deep against the current of a mountain stream and playing a trout with the gusto and skill of a true sportsman seems a most amazing disruption of the proprieties. Scarcely less startling is the discovery of a member of the faculty deep in a thrilling murder story or a scholar of the classics telling after-dinner stories at which the listener cannot help laughing...
...Socialism. In addition to several visits to various continental countries to examine there at close range the socialistic tendencies, he has delved deep into the theories of Karl Marx and his associates and satisfied himself of their fallacy. Mr. Brasol, however, should not be regarded only as a scholar, for he has spent most of his life in the Russian bureaucracy, where he was enabled to learn at first hand the workings of an imperialistic government. As a lawyer in the Department of Justice and as municipal attorney in many other Russian cities in addition to Petrograd, he has come...
...answer to the other question: Why did I go to college? or why did I send my son there? If the latter be answered for a "Key" and some more "book learning", then no one need worry; both are still to be found for the seeking. But true scholars seem to be born not made; and a true scholar and a true grind, wholly different characters by the bye, are both usually impervious to anything but their books. The fault is surely not with them...
...names are no; the only handiwork of the industrious scholar. One man, a student of the Greek dramatic poets, has carved a miniature Greek amphitheater, so perfect in detail that even the button for turning on the footlights is seen. Another man, attempting to reconcile the material ugliness about him, has made a bas-relief of a beautiful woman. A Kentuckian once carefully cut out his name, and the next hour another Kentuckian came along and whittled out the first Kentuckian's name to make place for his own. Thereby was a famous fend started...
...University of Kazan has presented 100 volumes on scholarly subjects, entirely in Russian. Such material is difficult to procure now, for the Bolshevist government has requisitioned all that it could find of the older writings which are of the most value to the scholar. These books date back to the time of Napoleon...