Word: scholar
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...will of Empire Builder Cecil Rhodes (1853-1902) generously provided two Oxford scholarships every three years for boys from every U. S. State.* In 1902, when the will was executed, there were 45 States. Scholarships were added for Oklahoma (1907), Arizona and New Mexico (1912). In 1929, Rhodes Scholar Frank Aydelotte, president of Swarthmore College and U. S. executor of the Rhodes Trust, knocked on the door of Parliament and had the Trust amended to establish eight districts of six States with twelve scholarships apiece, an arrangement which has since eliminated many an indifferent backwoods candidate. Last week alert Trustee...
When Harvard's President James Bryant Conant first broached his idea of establishing "roving professorships'' whose holders could cut across rigid departmental divisions and fertilize the whole university, he told his friends that he was thinking of no imaginary scholar but of Harvard's own restlessly roving William James (art-to-medicine-to-psychology-to-philosophy). A year ago Harvardman Thomas William Lament responded with a $500,000 endowment for a roving professorship, and President Conant last year indicated that he would finance a few more from the $5,500,000 Harvard received at its Tercentenary...
Most observers agreed that President Conant could not have made a happier choice. Roscoe Pound is as broad in knowledge as he is in beam. Before becoming a ranking authority on jurisprudence and a mighty scholar of the common law, he directed a botanical survey of his home State of Nebraska. He is as proud of the roscopoundia lichen as he is of his knowledge of Freemasonry and Civil War military history. Junketing in Europe last week, Roving Professor Pound in September will welcome as his successor in the job he has held for 21 years his onetime student, SECommissioner...
...Dean Oliver Cromwell Carmichael, who was brought to Vanderbilt two years ago from the presidency of Alabama College to effect Chancellor Kirkland's plans for whittling Vanderbilt's four-year course into two divisions (TIME, May 27, 1935). Chancellor-Elect Carmichael was Alabama's sixth Rhodes Scholar (1917). After the War, when he served as a relief worker and was arrested as a spy in Belgium, India, and once in Childersburg, Ala., he settled down to teach French in Alabama schools. He went to Alabama College as assistant to the president in 1922, succeeded his superior four...
...include posts of prominence in almost every activity. Among other things, Mclone is First Marshal of Phi Beta Kappa, chairman of the Album; Bowditch is president of the Student Council, was president of the CRIMSON; Kessler was an outstanding lineman on the football team, was heralded as the leading scholar athlete...