Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plethora of books is the bane of American history scholars who use a large library, while a paucity of them troubles the historian in the hinterlands. Either way, the serious scholar needs a general bibliography when he selects books for his research, and until now historians have necessarily relied upon the Channing, Hart, and Turner Guide to the Study and Reading of American History, published in 1912. But a bibliography four decades out-of-date and twenty years out of print has limited usefulness, and it remained for the authors of the Harvard Guide to American History to recommend...
Throughout, the Harvard Guide to American History is a scholar's companion. By following its reading lists, the intellectually curious will be well-rewarded; in its advice the fledgling scholar will find guidance, while the older historians will learn new tricks. The Guide seems destined to fulfill the fond purpose of its authors; it is sure "to be outdated quickly by the writings of those...
...Anderson had not planned on such ostentation. He only demanded that the bridge bear the following inscription: "May this bridge, built in memory of a scholar and soldier, connecting the college yard and playing fields of Harvard, bean ever-present reminder to students passing over it of loyalty to country and Alma Mater, and a lasting suggestion that they should devote their manhood, developed by study and play on the banks of this river, to the nation and its needs...
...these people may be of the caliber urgently needed here. Charles P. Schwartz, teaching fellow at the Law School, after comprehensive study of immigration laws, points out that "The United States needs the services of students who have special abilities. Yet under the present law, a foreign scholar, even a nuclear physicist, may be denied permission to stay here because of the irrelevancy that he was born in a low quota country. Regardless of his high aptitude, he 'chose' the wrong antecedents...
...been embarrassing as well as costly to the United States. In his recent book, The Golden Door, a castigation of the McCarran-Walter act, J. Campbell Bruce reviews the story of Michael Polyani, and "eminent British chemist and social philosopher, long recognized as Britain's foremost anti-Communist scholar," Polyani was elected a chair of Social Philosophy at the University of Chicago for the academic year 1951-52. In January of 1951, he applied to the U.S. Consulate in Liverpool for an immigrant visa, and completed forms which included such questions as: "Where have you lived since birth? Give exact...