Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What is the West? Who but an editor would ask such a question? Who but a genius could answer it?" begins Walter Prescott Webb's introductory essay to this collection compiled by the Chicago Corral of Westerners. Webb, the most distinguished scholar to appear in the book, hardly provides the answer to the question...
...have made such a reputation by the age of twenty-seven, is indeed a remarkable achievement. But as McCord points out, "This is a new field. A scholar is not limited to pedantic trivial subject matter to uncover fresh knowledge. Even an undergraduate can make an original discovery." McCord is an example of the new scholarship, a man whose youth and consequent lack of preconception about human behavior, help him examine society by eclectically drawing from all fields of social thought in order to better understand and help the society itself...
...other interests. With the help of a German scholar, he translated all of a Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra, and his favorite authors changed to Nietzsche, Kropotkin, and Marx...
Rather, he likely has become a sort of expert plumber in the card cata- logues or other areas and neither as teacher nor scholar will he throw off this inhibiting heritage. As a teacher, he may well lack that vivid excitement before fact or expression which is the basis of real communication. As a scholar, he may lack the means which a rigorous training in disciplines and techniques ought to have given him. If he knows that he does not possess the necessary tools with which a piece of work ought to be tackled, and that his training in form...
...figures of the Eisenhower Administration, Arthur Larson was the only one to ride to political fame on a book. Larson, brilliant Rhodes scholar and onetime dean of the University of Pittsburgh Law School, published A Republican Looks at His Party when serving as an efficient but little-known Under Secretary of Labor. Ike read the book while recovering from his ileitis operation, was impressed by Larson's carefully reasoned thesis that "New Republicanism" was the wave of the political future, that New Deal Democrats were as out of tune with the times as William McKinley. After his recovery...