Word: scholar
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...garden by the Thames. Of his sovereign, Sir Thomas said: ''If my head should win him a castle in France, it should not fail to go.'' But More's head went for a different purpose. Becoming Chancellor of England in 1529, this pious Catholic scholar and lawyer opposed Henry's divorce from Catherine of Aragon, his plan to make himself head of the English church. Gentle Sir Thomas was tried, condemned and executed for treason in 1535. His head was parboiled, exposed on London bridge and would have been thrown into the Thames...
Maintaining that "Until we have an adequate survey of our intellectual history, we cannot except the world at large to understand the importance of the scholar's contribution to civilization," President Conant yesterday announced the creation of a new Ph.D. degree in the History of Science and Learning...
...white-haired and wizened, David Lewis went back to Congress, one of the curiosities of politics, a scholar and a man of principle. With physics as his hobby, he is a member of the American Academy of Sciences. His studies are principally history, sociology and economics. No pains are too great when he is investigating a subject. When he was studying improvements in the U. S. parliamentary system, he learned French in order to verify a translation from de Tocqueville. So that his constituents cannot interrupt his studies, he keeps his home address in Washington to himself, has a secret...
Those who had the privilege of studying with Copey will long remember him as one of the greatest in a justly famous and fast vanishing group of humanists. While remarkably familiar with every nook and cranny of English literature. Copey was not--nor would he claim to be--a scholar in the strictest sense. But there is something in the fact that yearly the Harvard Club invites Copey to New York to give a Christmas reading; there is something in Copey's annual intimidation of a thousand freshmen--in the position Copey carved out for himself over a long span...
Many a Negro feels that Tuskegee's reliance on vocational training is a tacit admission of race inferiority. But to those who would like to see rich Tuskegee turn academic like Howard, Lincoln and Fisk, the election of Frederick Douglass Patterson gave no encouragement. More of a scholar than President Moton, Dr. Patterson is primarily an agriculturist and a veterinarian. Most Negroes concluded last week that Tuskegee will stay well within the Washington tradition...