Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...along relied on working to pay part of their way. They are particularly hard hit because their wages, like their allotments, do not buy as much as they once did. And a student cannot take on ever increasing hours of work and remain even a reasonable facsimile of a scholar...
...Rhodes Scholar Fulbright was well steeped in such comparisons. Last week he promised to introduce a Constitutional amendment providing for the simultaneous election of the President and both branches of Congress, for equal terms. The chances to overturn 159 years of Constitutional tradition were scarcely favorable. But the dilemma in Washington had excited new speculation about the Constitution and its rigidities...
Odell Shepard, Connecticut scholar, politico and Pulitzer Prize biographer (Pedlar's Progress: The Life of Bronson Al-cott), has collaborated with his son Willard Shepard on this outsized (250,000 words) chunk of historical fiction, in which almost everything happens except the storming of the Alamo and the rape of Lucrece. Holdfast Gaines, despite his name, is a Mohegan Indian, in the direct line of the great King Uncas himself. He is a nephew of Samson Occum-whom Dartmouth men will remember as an Indian protege of Eleazar Wheelock, Dartmouth's pious founder. Nathan Hale is Holdfast...
...wrote about U.S. life as sympathetically as Alexis de Tocqueville, and despite his foreign habits and ideas, made a profound impression on young Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson met him by chance in a St. Augustine boarding house one winter, described him as "an ardent lover of truth," a "scholar," a "noble" soul...
Somerville, who speaks the Russian language and has twice visited the Soviet union, instructed and taught at Columbia Universtiy the first courses in the United States devoted to examination of Russian thought since the revolution. Fischer, a former Rhodes scholar, spent several months this year as one of a team sent by the united States to check on distribution of UNRRA supplies in Russia...