Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that last year a comparatively large number of students received scholarship help for their first year of graduate work. This was taken as a reflection of "the feeling of many members of the Faculty that now and then a brilliant Senior gives more promise of becoming a productive scholar than many a graduate student who has acquired high grades in more advanced work...
Election, on Saturday, of Dr. Charles Seymour, former provost of Yale and professor of History, as President of Yale University drew praise from all sources. Officially President Conant spoke for Harvard, but unofficially, President Seymour was hailed as "a wise choice", "an able administrator", and a "distinguished scholar" here...
...solicited the post. Whether or not he subsequently voiced to the Vatican his claims-eminently just as they were-to be Philadelphia's first Cardinal, he was given his red hat in 1921, three months before the present Pope was raised to the purple. As a scholar with whom Pius XI enjoyed many a long chat in later years, as a doughty fighter for the Church whose solid accomplishments spoke for themselves, Cardinal Dougherty hardly needed to point out that he was the man to represent the Pope at the Manila Congress...
...comes first from the left and then from my back and overhead; so by a simple shift of the umbrella from my left to a verticle position and vice versa, as the wind changes, the trick is done. This little feat was suggested to me by a young Rhodes Scholar from Georgia; and though so many of the Rhodes men here are referred to in rather dampish terms, still this Southerner is so sensitive to cold weather to be of an original turn of mind. It is this same fellow who experimented with and electrical heating mattress and nearly...
...penalty for the first offense against temperance was trivial compared with that for wearing gold braid. "If any Scholar shall be guilty of Drunkenness, he shall be fined one shilling and sixpence or he shall make a public confession or be degraded, according to the Aggravation of the Offense. And if any Scholar persist on a course of Intemperance, he shall be Rusticated or Expelled...