Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shimer & bride hurried home to protest. He had strong support: 22 of the 28 professors at the summer session signed a petition backing him. The petition referred to his previous career as national secretary of Phi Beta Kappa and editor of the American Scholar, as dean of the faculty at Bucknell and as a Navy lieutenant during the war. Said greying Professor T. D. Phillips of Marietta's physics department: "Marietta College needs some new trustees...
From all over the Colonies and from England came gifts of books from scholars, preachers, writers. The library doubled in size every 20 years. Today, as "trustee for the learned world" (as it likes to call itself), Harvard's library spends more money a year on the upkeep of valuable but out-of-the-way bequests than it does on books that its undergraduates use. For the searching scholar it houses shelves full of irreplaceable documents on the Italian Risorgimento, Congo dialects, cooking and the privately printed pornographies of Mark Twain. Some of its treasures haven't been...
Apparently no big U.S. university can now afford to pick a scholar for its president. The U.S. college president, 1947 model, has to be a salesman, skilled at wheedling bequests from his alumni; a special pleader when it comes to dealing with his trustees; an executive when it comes to bossing his community of scholars. Last week, the University of Southern California picked a new president, and ran true to form...
Scant effort is made by Widener Library to keep the scholar cool, but the game cannot he said for the most valuable book kept there, the Gutenberg Bible. It is currently being "rested" from the summer run in an air-conditioned safe...
Philip spent hours along the Moray Firth soaking up the shoptalk of fishermen and boatbuilders. At night he would stand watch with coast guardsmen in their lonely huts high over the harbor. As a scholar he was only fair, but when he left school after four years he took with him the highest honor for seamanship...