Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under terms of the agreement, the holder of the chair must be "a distinguished woman scholar" named by the University, with the understanding that Radcliffe may suggest candidates. The Radcliffe council must concur in the final appointment...
Freedom & Equality. He placed his principles against such theories as those of the left-wing English scholar, Edward Hallett Carr, who wrote: "Equality in the abstract is purely formal... Even equality before the law may be a mockery when the law is framed by members of a privileged class. Freedom itself can be equally formal. Freedom to choose or refuse a job is unreal if freedom to refuse is merely tantamount to freedom to starve." It is a powerful and seductive line...
Ambition. In the beginning, as children of a poverty-stricken Viennese scholar, they had adored each other. Ruth, the older, became a Communist first. Gerhart, who won five decorations as an officer of the Austrian Army in World War I, joined the party in the fevered days of 1918. They worked together. When Ruth, then a bundle of sex appeal and intellectual fire, went to Berlin, Gerhart followed. She became a leader of the German Communist Party, and a member of the Reichstag. But Gerhart took a different ideological tack, began to covet power for himself. He applauded when Ruth...
...policy of the Committee on Scholarships throughout the 12 year history of the "Nationals" has been to select outstanding graduates of secondary schools for these prizes, regardless of the financial capabilities of the scholar's family. Unquestionably the College has benefited greatly from this infusion of rich intellectual talent and leadership. At the same time it is vital to note that of these Scholars, some 20 percent were taken from families whose incomes were above $5000, and 40 percent from an income bracket over $4000. Since there is no questioning the Committee's sincerity in choosing the most promising candidates...
...supreme madness or be deaf to its screams and bellows. Its principal character, Dr. Peter Kien, is the world's prime authority on Chinese, Japanese and Indian manuscripts. As a schoolboy prodigy, "in one minute Kien had memorized ∏ to 65 decimal places." As a grown-up scholar, he lives in solitude, utterly shut off from the world by the tomes of his magnificent library, wholly dedicated to pedantry. One sad day, this sexless, infantile genius decides to marry his housekeeper, because she is the only person he can trust to dust his books...