Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Scholar Siepmann is convinced that radio permits the concentration of power in the hands of a few-power to blast social concepts, to construct or destroy. He is appalled by the fact that of the 500 U.S. universities offering radio courses, only four (Harvard, Princeton, U. of Southern California, Lancaster, Pa.'s Franklin and Marshall College) touch on its social implications...
...scholarship he had no equal. Not only was Kittredge a famous scholar through the years in English, but in other languages and literature as well...
...personality was dual. With undergraduates, who had grown to expect temperamental eccentricities, the irascible pedagogue he could be, but with advanced students in his graduate courses he was the urbane scholar, no pains too great to take, and ah, to the suppliant he could be sweet as Summer...
...distinguished scholar, after dining with him at Oxford a few years ago, happily described this aspect of his character when he called him "a connoisseur of books and of life."The Harvard Lampoon--Oct. 26, 1935"Last one out is a brazen-faced varlet...
...Editor of the CRIMSON has asked me to set down at this time-some personal memories of Professor Kittredge, rather than to write of his career as a scholar, teacher, or author. In my case these memories are long-standing, for they go back to the year 1888, when Mr. Kittredge corrected my sophomore themes. They continue through more than 50 years of close association, first as a student and then as a younger colleague. For it has been my privilege to count him as one of my best friends throughout my life...