Word: scholares
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Letters in the Cellar. A grandson of Scholar Samuel Eliot, Morison had his tory virtually thrust upon him. The family house on Brimmer Street, where he still lives, was a rendezvous for Boston's great, and the family archives were a source library in themselves. At Harvard Morison fell under the spell of Charles Haskins, Edward Channing and Albert Bushnell Hart. He wrote his first book, Life and Letters of Harrison Gray Otis, partly from the boxes of letters stored in the family wine cellar. But aside from the influence of his teachers and ancestors, there was also...
...scholar, he himself carefully avoided routine channels. "A whole generation has passed," he once complained, "without producing any really great works on American history . . . none with fire in the eye, none to make a young man want to fight for his country in war or live to make it a better country in peace." To Morison, history was pre-eminently "a story that moves . . . that sings to the heart while it informs the understanding." In the front of one of his books stands a quotation that he might have written himself: "Dream dreams, then write them -aye, but live them...
...reason that he died before most of Shakespeare's plays were written. Anti-Shakespearean students are prepared to believe almost anything, but none of them has ever suggested that Marlowe went on writing after he was dead. Heaven only knows why. Calvin Hoffman, a reporter, drama critic, Shakespearean scholar, is the first man to try to grasp this nettle firmly...
Roscoe Pound, University Professor Emeritus and Dean of the Law School from 1916-36, has been awarded the $15,000 William Volker Award "for distinguished service as scholar, teacher, and public servant," Dean Grirswold of the Law School has announced...
These two works--the first informal, current and American, the second formal, historical, and Japanese--represent distinct poles in Reischauer's career. For he is a scholar constantly concerned with current problems, a former government consultant who remained at all times an "academician" and a thoroughly American varsity tennis player with an almost intuitive understanding of his birthplace, Japan...