Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conant, who led the weekend field with three speeches, also spoke Friday evening in a symposium on "The Scholar's Contribution in a Free Society," and off the record at Saturday night's full-scale banquet...
Professor Beer is a former newspaper reporter, Rhodes Scholar, and member of the Democratic National Committee. Professor Cherington has worked for the Bureau of the Budget, the School for Overseas Administration, and has been Secretary of the Graduate School of Public Administration...
...first-classmen (seniors), parents are advised to keep weekly pocket allowances to 75?, and there is a compulsory Saturday sewing-hour for Milton girls. Unlike many New England prep schools, Milton has no required religion courses. But Headmaster Arthur Bliss Perry, 49, son of Harvard's famed scholar Bliss Perry, and a Milton teacher since 1921, tries to impress on his well-bred boys & girls "the obligation of the unenforceable...
Williams College President James Phinney Baxter will join with President Conant in discussing "The Scholar's Contribution in a Free Society" at the Friday afternoon session of the convention. Along with the two educators, Alan Greff of the Rockefeller Foundation and industrialists Oliver E. Buckley and General Brehon B. Somervell form the rest of the panel...
...itinerant Methodist preacher, John Ransom was born and raised in Tennessee, educated at Vanderbilt and Oxford (as a Rhodes Scholar). After a dismal year as a prep-school Latin teacher, he taught English at Vanderbilt (with time out for World War I) for 23 years. Until the Fugitives woke him from his "dogmatic slumber," Ransom was a conventional teacher who took few pains to inspire his students. The bumptious crop of younger Fugitives stimulated him both as poet and teacher. Ransom, say his admirers in the Sewanee Review, did not try to dominate; he attained more enduring effects...