Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...College, a large proportion of faculty time "will be invested in showing groups of 10 to 15 freshmen what it is like to work as a scholar by directing them in the exploration of a limited subject matter." The faculty will consider its job not to fill intellectual filing cabinets, but to develop in its students "a capacity to continue their education throughout their lives...
...Soviet secondary school teacher is expected to be "a scholar in his field and not, as is frequently the case in the United States, merely a college graduate with a rudimentary knowledge of his specialty." Pay, privilege and status of Soviet teachers are far above U.S. levels...
...story begins in Benares, where the family has taken quarters in a poor but respectable part of the city. The father, a priest and a scholar, puts in a long day as a religious teacher on the banks of the holy Ganges. The mother struggles to make a home in a strange new world, to observe the country decencies and obey the laws of caste. But how can she keep her son Apu, now ten, from running wild in the swarming streets...
...Library, however, is basically a quiet sort of organization which is quite happy to see the scholar, but not particularly interested in seeing anyone else. And justifiably so, for its facilities are adequate, even superb, but only for the sort of literary aristocracy which has a need for primary material. If anyone has a particular interest in an author or work it may be possible for him to see it in manuscript form at Houghton, but not to use it, if it is at all possible for him to use a secondary work...
...addition, the Committee presents a specific program for imparting this "idea" to the knowledge-hungry young scholar. Courses should be instituted which offer a "knowledge of the fundamental principles of a special science and give the student an idea of the methods of science as they are known today." Such courses would unquestionably be very beneficial for a student with some touch of scientific curiosity, but it is a bit difficult to see just why they would give this idea of scientific discipline (as a molding force in modern life) any better than Nat. Sci. 10 does...