Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...always tell a Harvard man, so goes the old adage, but you cannot tell him much. For true erudition of this variety, Professor Kittredge knows no poor. Not long ago the noted Shakespearean scholar was attending a Gilbert and Sullivan opera. Behind him, in Row J, Seat 15, sat an elderly lady; the very model of a Savoyard aunt or mother-in-law; one whom time had passed by in its fast flight, and left in the twilight of bygone days, a little unknowing. After the first act, she remarked to her companion, "It is lovely...
Harvard University entered its 298th year with Dr. James Bryant Conant as new president. This year Harvardmen will save some $110,000 on room & board, the University having reduced rates. Last week Harvard announced that Poet-Scholar Laurence Binyon, deputy keeper of the British Museum, would succeed Poet Thomas Stearns Eliot in the famed Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry. One of the 1,000-odd freshmen registering at Harvard last week was Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. who arrived with a bodyguard. The freshmen were greeted by Charles Francis Adams. Harvard overseer who counseled: "To be a success you must...
...Yale, at Harvard, Ph.D., at Oxford Rhodes scholar, these were the stages in the professor's progress, resulting in as completely educated a man as you are likely to meet walking between Garden Street and Jim's Place of a winter evening. From among such various tugs of influence and tradition, he has emerged with a balance and soundness rare in the professional student, and an eclectic view. Though he has a great and natural affection for his first Alma Mater, interesting himself much in its affairs as an alumnus, he considers that Harvard and the Harvard undergraduate far more...
...second or third year work in German and say so in the prefaces. As in preparatory school courses, the examinations are marked solely on the basis of literal translation of selected passages. The course will satisfy the student seeking to enlarge his vocabulary or the already well-versed German scholar who wants a "snap" courses, but a half year is enough for either...
...serve as a basis for predictions, he did reveal enough to cause fore-bodings. Throughout the address, references to scholarship, research, and similar subjects sounded a distinct overtone. Such allusions may point the way to a gradual, almost imperceptible shifting of academic emphasis from the teacher to the pure scholar, a shift which, if violent enough, might well affright the student. No one, to be sure, denies the value and inspiration inherent in the words of a great scholar and discoverer, or even in the more sight of his accomplishments at first hand. Where this inspiration is most felt, however...