Word: scholar
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Died. Aurelia Henry Reinhardt, 70, retired president of California's Mills College (1916-43), outstanding Dante scholar (editor and translator: The Monarchia of Dante Alighieri), first woman moderator of a major U.S. church (Unitarian Churches of America, 1940-42); after long illness; in Palo Alto, Calif...
Last week the rusting swords of World War II began to be turned into textbooks. The idea came from Arkansas' Senator J. William Fulbright, an old Rhodes Scholar. He put two & two together: there was $140 million worth of U.S. war surplus rusting abroad which foreign countries could use if they didn't have to pay for it in U.S. dollars. Fulbright persuaded Congress that the U.S. should swap the surplus for scholarships...
Once, as a "reverse Rhodes Scholar at Yale," chubby Geoffrey Crowther toured Georgia with three other collegians in a ramshackle flivver. He enjoyed every muddy mile of it. Since then, as editor of the Economist, he has covered the U.S.- and the world-like a politico-economic bird dog working a new, field. And he has made the weekly Economist Britain's most influential periodical...
Numbers 1 to 99 will be strictly undergraduate courses; from 100 to 199 will be for undergraduates and graduates; from 200 to 299 represents the domain of the graduate scholar; 300 to 399 are graduate courses of reading and research...
Exam-wise upperclass veterans had warned 'Cliffe freshmen that finals were no pink tea, and one earnest young scholar took the counsellors at their word...