Word: scholar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...harrassing quest for money to support a scholar's project is often more tiring and time consuming than the actual research. Strangely enough, charitable foundations often award liberal grants to large groups, while rejecting support for small scale investigations. The unfortunate result is that many of the University's projects lag because modest sums of money are unavailable for basic equipment. According to the warning of the special Faculty Committee for the Behavioral Sciences, financial problems cripple the younger scholars particularly, for their work is usually not covered by large grants...
Blake stated that "as a scholar in Church History, Professor Williams is second to none. Add to this his excellent administrative ability, and you have the necessary qualities for a good Dean...
...Government has established to cope with the atomic age. Last week, in a letter to the Reporter magazine, Professor Einstein wrote: "If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances...
...just-published book, Aspects of Chinese Painting (Macmillan; $7.50), Alan Priest, Far Eastern expert of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, explains: "The Chinese look upon natural things with an eye and feeling more intimate than is common to the West. The scholar seated under the ancient pine looking out upon the lofty hills is not alone; he is part of them, and they...
...announcement was met with regret by many of his associates, who agreed he has been a distinguished law teacher and scholar. "I am sorry the time has come for Professor Seavey to retire. He was an eminently qualified colleague," said Arthur E. Sutherland, professor of Law. Professor Mark DeWolfe Howe '28 praised Seavey. "He is a special kind of teacher; I have no reservations in my admiration...