Word: scholar
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...from Pugwash. To match its whoop-de-do student body, U.B.C. has a robust president. He is Dr. Norman Archibald MacRae MacKenzie, a bootstrap scholar, brilliant organizer and a man who gets what he wants. When Ottawa phoned one day last fall giving permission to use abandoned Army huts on the campus, "Larry" MacKenzie chuckled: he had carted them off and put them on campus some weeks before...
President Conant considered the Harvard Faculty member as well: on a year round schedule, he cannot be expected "to keep his freshness and vigor as a teacher or as a scholar," and arrangements are being made to give him a one term rest out of three or four...
Teaching had hardly changed since Ptolemy's day. Education was by rote and rod. A young, ugly, runty, sad-eyed Swiss scholar wanted to do something about it. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi had already thought of preaching as a career-and his first sermon was so bad, the tale goes, that he laughed out loud in the middle of it. He tried law, and flopped again. At 22, in the year 1768, he bought a farm-and failed at that, too. But while his crops went to ruin, he filled his house with waifs, strays and farm kids, and began...
Chicago's balding, scholarly Archbishop Samuel Alphonsus Stritch, N.C.W.C. vice-chairman, gave his apostolic benediction to a high-school group of Christmas carolers, said modestly: "It pleased me greatly that our Holy Father has so signally honored the archdiocese of Chicago. . . . The honor done to my person fills me with overwhelming gratitude." The Cardinal-designate, a builder as well as a scholar, at 58 has behind him. a long record of achievement: Bishop of Toledo at 34, Archbishop of Milwaukee, then of Chicago...
Pure English, Just Refined. I. A. Richards first became hipped on the idea of Basic 22 years ago when he collaborated with its inventor, Charles Kay Ogden, a fellow scholar at the University of Cambridge, on a tortuous book on semantics, called The Meaning of Meaning. Since then he has spent a good deal of time globe-trotting as Basic's chief agitator, wearing the benign smile of a zealot who is content with his life's work. When war broke out, he was at Harvard on a Rockefeller grant as a roving researcher on the problems...