Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...International Justice at The Hague, World War II Secretary-General of China's Supreme National Defense Council, onetime Chief Justice (appointed 1920) of the Supreme Court of China; after long illness; in Taipei, Formosa. Born in Canton, educated at Peiyang University, Yale University and in Europe, ubiquitous Scholar Wang was author of the standard English translation of the German Civil Code, onetime co-editor of the Journal of the American Bar Association, pen behind the Yueh Fa (China's modernized code of laws...
...experiment. His 18-year administration saw the establishment of the first U.S. chapter of the secular order Opus Dei (TIME, March 18, 1957) also the launching of the Christian Family Movement and the first vigorous church action to help Puerto Ricans in the U.S His organizing ability and scholar's mine (plus excellent Italian) equip him wel as the first American ever admitted to the Italian-dominated Curia-powerhous of the Vatican...
...longer works, a trial of Proust and a poem on the death of Shelley, further attest to the new zest for vitality in form. They are impressive in both length and language, but that very length is discouraging to the harried scholar and the springtime esoteric. They were written by an engineer and a naval aviator...
...programs for master teachers and administrators, including the programs leading to the Ed.D. degree, should include and require a much larger portion of the liberal studies. We must work toward the view that an educational leader is not merely an organization man but should be primarily an intellectual, a scholar, and a man of ideas. This will represent a sharp reversal of a trend of the past 30 years, but a reversal we must make if educational leadership at the level of ideas is again to be returned to the hands of the professional group...
Died. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, 69, Indian Minister of Education, Natural Resources and Scientific Research, Jeader in his country's independence movement, intimate of Gandhi and Nehru, scholar; of a stroke; in New Delhi. At the Moslem service for the Mecca-born philosopherstatesman (with about 100,000 mourners, the largest Indian funeral gathering since the cremation of Gandhi), Prime Minister Nehru wept, said: "The whole nation has been orphaned...