Word: scholar
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...French and German scholar, Ford published his first book, Robe and Sword: The Regrouping of the French Aristocracy after Louis XIV, in 1953. He gives alternate courses in French and German history when lecturing...
Born in Budapest in 1881, Scholar von Karman was an assistant professor at the Royal Technical University in 1903, when the Wright brothers made their first flight. Nine years later he was head of the newly organized Aeronautical Institute at Germany's University of Aachen. In 1928 he took a research job at Caltech, settled there permanently in 1930, became a U.S. citizen...
Died. Dr. Gordon Keith Chalmers, 52, president since 1937 of Ohio's small (500 students), distinguished Kenyon College; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Hyannis, Mass. Founded in 1824 as a training ground for clergymen, Kenyon later became a seat of liberal education, a concept warmly embraced by Rhodes Scholar Chalmers, who took as his lifelong challenge the "gigantic inquiry taken from the Old Testament: 'What is man that Thou art mindful...
James Luther Adams, a leading Unitarian scholar, will become professor of Christian Ethics. Adams is now professor of Religious Ethics in the University of Chicago and Meadville Theological School...
Krister Stendahl, Swedish Lutheran scholar, will continue permanently at Harvard as associate professor of New Testament. Stendahl, a leader of church youth work in Europe, has been assistant professor here since...