Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nosing about the East after biblical lore in 1844 a German scholar named Constantine Tischendorf traveled through the Sinai Peninsula and up to a lonely Orthodox Greek monastery atop Mount St. Catherine.* There in a wastebasket he came across a bundle of 43 stray vellum leaves which a monk had tossed aside for lighting fires. Scholar Tischendorf recognized the vellum leaves as fragments of an ancient Greek biblical text. He asked for more. The St. Catherine monks showed him some, refused to part with them. Scholar Tischendorf took home what he had, published it as the Codex Friderico-Augustanus...
...circumstances, the hours after six o'clock constitute for these persons the most convenient hours of study. But under the combined pressure of reading period work, review for examinations, and thesis work, the library, and especially the stacks have become so congested as to make it difficult for the scholar to find either place or material to study during the afternoon, thus making evening study in the library more imperative than ever...
Theodore Dreiser is a bluff, sort of a spade-a-spade fellow. He was dining out at one of the Harvard houses the other evening where it happened that the head tutor was a former Rhodes scholar, and of course you know what that means. In case you don't, it means that he affects a small, rather amusing moustache. The head tutor was about to break bread with Dreiser as a fellow literary man; warming up to him, a little, if a head tutor could he so described, Said Mr. Dreiser, firmly and loudly: "Say, that's quite...
...When any scholar is able to understand Tully, or such like classical Latine author extempore, and make and speak true Latine verse and prose, suoet aiunt Marti; and decline perfectly the paradignes of nounes and verbes in the Greek tongue: let him then, and not before, be capable of admission into the College...
...left guard our betters have been picking the scholar-athlete of Hanover, Michelet, and in spite of the Army's Gooch, the Indian seems to be the best that opponents have brought to the Stadium. The pivot post is another snag with Bucknam (Army), Morandos (Holy Cross), McKiniry (New Hampshire) and Malin (Yale), all in the running. But the order in which they have been set down seems to be a fair enough rating of their abilities and so Bucknam is first and Morandos second. Right guard goes without much question to Captain Jablonsky of the Army and is slated...