Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...help clear a crowded calendar. He remained with that court until 1932, sitting after 1927 as its chief judge. A lifelong bachelor, he lived with his sister Ellen Ida until her death in 1929, gave his whole life to his profession. Diminutive, white-mopped Justice Cardozo is a scholar, an outstanding liberal, a humanitarian and an unusually modest man. The clarity and logic of his opinions make them among the most quoted...
...Hanfstaengl has received the following telegram from Dr. Francis P. Magoun, Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University: "The Harvard Alumni are ashamed on account of the action of the University Corporation." Another American scholar, Professor Matthew T. Mellon, has likewise informed Dr. Hanfstaengl by telegram, that he himself has offered President Conant of Harvard University $1000 for a scholarship, with the condition that the money should be used according to the intention of Dr. Hanfstaengl. "As an American citizen I should like to place my service at your disposal, so that your good intentions will be acknowledged in America...
...great mathematical logicians in the world. His Principles oj Quantum Mechanics is a monument of human cerebration. That book is utterly incomprehensible to ordinary men who had never heard of its author until Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac won a Nobel Prize last year. Only a few of the ablest scholar-scientists can follow the chain of symbolic reasoning in Principles of Quantum Mechanics, and among them none is more articulate, more authoritative, more sensible than Sir James Hopwood Jeans, president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Like a modern St. Paul, Sir James has taken it upon...
...Tudor park that our good friend and scholar, Roger Aseham, first caught sight of Lady Jane Grey. The little child of thirteen summers was reading ". . . Phaedo Platonis, and that with as much delights as some gentelmen would read a merrie tale in Roeeaeeio." The Duke and Duchess, hunting in the glade nearby, had been abusing her cruelly, for they pinched her if she danced ". . . they, good people, knew not what pleasure meant." The scholar felt himself drawn to this tender young flower of learning, and he watched her as she grow up in the court of Edward VI. At fifteen...
...Rhodes Scholar candidates must file applications Monday...