Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henry Augustus Ward was a zestful young scholar who studied at Williams and under the late great Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, at Cambridge. He later attended the School of Mines at the University of Paris, paying his expenses by collecting and selling European fossils. In 1861, aged 27, he became a professor of natural science at the University of Rochester. He assembled a group of skilled preparators which, at one time or another, included Carl Akeley, Charles Livingston Bull, William T. Hornaday, Frederic Lucas. He sold a $20,000 collection of fossils to the university, but went ahead with...
Professor Morison did not dwell at length on the well-worn, familiar facts of Harvard history, but instead introduced comparatively new material. Thus, we learn that in the days when term-bills were paid in produce, one scholar was credited with an animal's "suet innards" and another with a "piece of stuff...
...ideal with a little coarse sand of realism seems, in a very real sense, unforgivable, but past experience, confirmed in some measure by recent appointments, proves that it is possible to get this happy combination of proficiencies only in the isolated instance. Experience has shown that if the teacher-scholar fulfills his function ably in two out of three departments, he is a relatively happy choice; further, that today the result of this policy is to attract men who are capable research scholars and to a lesser degree, able graduate teachers, but not capable instructors of undergraduates...
...Gallery. More famed than either is gentle, witty Brother Livingston, 69, who in his 15 years as president of Cornell University has enriched that old school spiritually and materially. To Brother Livingston, an M. D., Cornell owes its new $60,000,000 Manhattan Medical Centre, many a renowned scholar drawn to Cornell's campus by Lake Cayuga outside Ithaca, N. Y. This week Livingston became the second Farrand to retire...
...attics and among the heirlooms of the earth, historical manuscripts lie hidden like nuggets in the coarse ore of family possessions. They seem to be everywhere except where a scholar might be expected to look for them. Thus Caulaincourt's great memoir of Napoleon (TIME, Dec. 2) turned up in the wall of an old chateau; the manuscript of Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides was found in an old croquet box. A valuable pack of the letters of Vincent van Gogh was located in the belongings of a family in Winter Park...