Word: scholar
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...retired from his positions at the University in 1965 and received an honorary degree in 1966 which cited him as a "Scholar-scribe, devoted to precision, precedent and propriety; longtime generous and helpful officer of this university," according to The Boston Globe...
Damrosch further suggests that Harvard cannot take the chance of tenuring someone of Jeff Masten's relatively young age, but it seems to me entirely debatable which constitutes the greater risk in a lifetime appointment: the young but widely respected scholar who shows ever indication of continued intellectual growth over the long term, or the scholar recognized as a mature authority in a given field who resists new modes of working in or thinking about that field. Harvard does boast a number of senior Faculty who continue to be vital and innovative in their teaching and scholarship. Nevertheless, its anomalous...
...very gifted scholar and a wonderful human bring," Kagan said. Though retired, Brown occasionally came to departmental meetings and offered advice when needed, Kagan said...
...very rare, Renaissance scholar," he said. "It will be a long time before we have another as gifted, erudite and humane scholar...
...Roger Brown was a model scholar, a writer virutally without peer in the discipline and a wonderful teacher and mentor," said Professor of Psychology Daniel L. Schacter. "The Department of Psychology will miss him deeply, as will the entire field to which he made such profound contributions...