Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seedbed. Few men have been more eloquent on the subject of America than Jacques Barzun, and he got to his present position by his own intellectual route. The son of the literary scholar, Henri Martin Barzun, he spent his boyhood among some of the foremost artists around Paris. Novelists Jules Romains and Georges Duhamel were constant visitors, so were Artists Fernand Leger, Albert Gleizes and Marcel Duchamp. "It was," says Barzun, "a seedbed of modernism. Apollinaire dandled me on his knee. Marie Laurencin did a sketch...
Coming from such a home, young Barzun seemed destined for a scholar's career. He was allowed to read whatever books he could reach in his father's library, and when his school decided to try to solve the World War 1 teacher shortage by using the famous Lancaster system (employing older pupils to teach the younger ones), nine-year-old Jacques got a crack at his first class. "All I remember about it," says he, "is that it had to do with arithmetic and that the room seemed filled with thousands of very small children in black...
...simmering mystery over the Manhattan disappearance of Jesús de Galindez, scholar, author and bitter enemy of Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, boiled up suddenly last week and scalded the political future of Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., who gets $30,000 a year for representing Dictator Trujillo in New York...
...accept it, however, under the guise of a "timely" study of the individuals who come and go and create this university; we do not accept his confusion, his failure to conclude what to do with the banished "good scholar" students and professors; we do not accept the inhuman (and it is Mr. Raditsa's term) hate, fear and isolation which is the basis of this "humanist's" book. The Editors, The Harvard Advocate
Robert C. Milton, '56 of Winthrop House and Worcester has been awarded the Lionel de Jersey Harvard Studentship for 1956-57. He will spend next year as Harvard Scholar at Emmanuel College in Cambridge, England...