Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sternly classical high school, where one of his classmates was Jarl Hjalmarson, now the leader of the Swedish Conservative Party. At Uppsala University Dag took a B.A., majoring in philosophy and French literature. He is also a bachelor of laws and a doctor of economics. Dag was a brilliant scholar; he had little time for social life. In his 205, he wrote a paper called Konjunktur-spridningen (The Spread of the Business Cycle). It was couched in language so abstruse that few of his colleagues understood it, but Dag prefaced it with a quote from Alice in Wonderland: " 'That...
Citation: "Scholar, medical research expert, and physician to the children of the world...
...activities in the second category. The Association of American Universities, in a 1949 statement signed by Harvard, concluded that Communist Party members "should not be employed as teachers." Resulting policy, at least in the minds of educational administrators, extends the traditional principle that academic freedom does not entitle a scholar to disregard the law of the state from its usual application to specific acts--such as murder or theft--to embrace a system of ideas, in so far as communism is such a system, and in so far as it advocates overthrow of the American government. While the moral issue...
Question: Gaza, a Greek scholar of the fifteenth century said that if all the books of the world were on a ship fated to be wrecked and he could save only one author, Plutarch would be the one. Under similar circumstances which two or three books would you save...
...typical reaction to the College was given that fall by a visiting Oxford student, John Maud: "I had come over here expecting to find Harvard a hot-bed of collegiatism. My disillusionment was most welcome." The English scholar added as explanation, "Oxford, you know, is tremendously amused at the so-called 'College Spirit...