Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...marked not only the high point of Buddhist art, but also of court painters and poets still ranked among China's greatest. Among the period's leading figures : the Empress Wu, who rivals Britain's first Elizabeth for energy and cunning; the "Illustrious Sovereign" Hsuan-Tsung, scholar and educator, whose tragic love for the beauteous Yang Kuei Fei ended when the army, incensed at her extravagance, forced her to be hanged from a pear tree with a silken scarf...
...contrast, The Conquistadors, by French Scholar Jean Descola, lacks the firsthand touch of that truly wonderful story; it is a brilliant work of historical synthesis, written with an eloquence that is Spanish and an aphoristic bite that is French. For part of the way the two books travel together, since both chronicle the Cortés conquest. The 16th century soldier and the 20th century scholar tell much the same story-the fantastic saga of Hernán Cortés, a vagabond student from Salamanca who became one of the most famous conquerors in history...
Kenneth Auchincloss '59, of Lowell House and New York City, has been awarded the Jacob Wendell Scholarship for 1956-57. The scholarship is given yearly to a member of the sophomore class who is judged by the committee the most promising scholar in his class...
Died. Robert Sterling Clark, 79, publicity-shy Singer Sewing Machine heir, sportsman (his horse Never Say Die won Britain's Epsom Derby in 1954), scholar and art collector; after a stroke; in Williamstown, Mass. Collector Clark quietly salted away a vast store of art treasures for most of his life, in 1955 began to display his collections publicly at the air-conditioned, superbly lighted Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, a $3,000,000 free public museum in Williamstown (TIME...
Died. Dr. Frank Aydelotte, 76, longtime (1921-40) president of Swarthmore College, director (1939-47) of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N.J., and American secretary (1918-53) of the Rhodes scholarship program for Oxford University; after a cerebral thrombosis; in Princeton. Himself a Rhodes scholar ('05) from Indiana University, Frank Aydelotte forfeited part of his stipend by marrying (Cecil Rhodes stipulated that his scholars must be single), but completed his studies at Oxford, later revised and stiffened selection of the U.S.'s Rhodes scholars, while at Swarthmore instituted a system of independent studies for top students...