Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little impression on England. The Unforgotten Prisoner, his second, was chosen by the English Book Society. Twenty-seven-year-old Author Hutchinson has a job with the English advertising firm of J. & B. Colman, leans away from London literati. Before that he was an Oxonian but no esthete, no scholar. Though Author Hutchinson is no old soldier (he was too young to fight in the World War), his deeply-felt picture of post-War chaos will be classed with Erich Maria Remarque's The Road Back...
Professor Spargo, although he has performed a work primarily interesting to the scholar, fortified with the necessary scholarly thoroughness, has written a book which the layman can read and enjoy. The legends themselves fascinating, are recorded in a pleasant and charming way, together with a rich mine of attractive illustration from the topical art of the period...
Surely it should not require a year to mould the prospective scholar into ductile shape for upperclass work; at least, that year should involve a progress beyond his intellectual adolescence. The standards in the elemental subjects with which the prospect has chosen to arm himself to pass the Chairman of Admissions must be raised so that these subjects need not be taught to such students in College in their introductory form. None would suggest the elimination of primary courses, but they should become the canape rather than the cocktail of the freshman year...
...approval. After this procedure, the president must send the pledge to the Department of the Interior in Washington with a letter from the college saying that the administration agreed to cancel the tuition fees of the student who has signed the pledges, if the government would further aid the scholar by allowing him to work for regular wages. In this agreement, the college may still charge the student concerned for board and rent, but all course fees must be cancelled...
Last week the British Museum was heckled from the monastery on Mt. Sinai where in 1844 the Codex was discovered by German Scholar Constantine Tischendorf. According to monks of the monastery, Tischendorf took the Codex to Cairo pleading that he must study it in a warm climate. He went to the Russian Consulate and, thus on Russian soil, defied the monks to get their Codex back. Tischendorf gave the manuscript to Tsar Alexander II who reimbursed the monastery with a paltry $3,500. Last week Porphyries III, Archbishop of Sinai, detailed all this in a long, indignant cablegram...