Word: scholar
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...choice of General Dwight D. Eisenhower as its new president, to take office next year, had brought mostly cheers- but there were a few who had reservations. Said the New York Herald Tribune last week: "There will inevitably be regrets that the trustees were unable to find a scholar of the first rank qualified for the post. Plainly, in turning to General Eisenhower, they elected to subordinate the question of learning, of the skills in education, to the more practical issues of administration. . . . It can be argued that the present era of confusion calls for just [such] stalwart virtues...
Whether a first-rank scholar is really needed to run a modern U.S. university, or whether an able administrator sensitive to the rights and duties of scholars might do as well or better, was at least a debatable question. But Columbia was breaking no precedents in appointing General Eisenhower.* Robert E. Lee, after a lifetime in uniform, became the able president of Washington College (now Washington & Lee) in Lexington, Va. And even in the Herald Tribune's home town, the president who had ruled City College for the longest stretch was Alexander Webb, a Union general at Gettysburg. Columbia...
...Whose brother Milton, now president of Kansas State, is no professional scholar either, but a former OWI executive & longtime Department of Agriculture official...
...orthodoxy. Liberal, rationalist reformers such as Mohamed Abduh and Iqbal on the one hand, and force-loving Mahdists like Mohamed Ahmed on the other, have failed to capture it. Nearly all Moslems still hold the Koran so infallible that all translations are considered heresies. Says Oxford's Islamic Scholar H. A. R. Gibb, in his new book, Modern Trends in Islam: "Liberalism . . . has struck no profound roots in the Moslem mind...
Only a sympathetic and delicate work of fiction could do complete justice to the quirky beliefs of backwoods Americans in western Missouri and Arkansas. In this book, the quirks are set down as fact, exhaustively and entertainingly, by an Ozark scholar who has lived in the mountains for 30 years and kept a card file that eventually filled a trunk. He writes without condescension and also without the solemn intensity of the sociologist. Some of the Ozark signs and sayings he found...