Word: scholares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tuesday will be Museum day for WGBH-TV, and Museum and University scholars will describe the history, sociology and traditions which surround each masterpiece. Artists will supplement slides and motion pictures in demonstrating the techniques under study; when Chinese brush paintings are on exhibition a Chinese scholar might demonstrate the rapid stroking used in their creation. Dooley accounts for the astonishing TV enthusiasm of even the stuffiest scholars as "latent ham bursting forth...
Last week, as the association report went out just before his formal installation, President Elkins, a Rhodes scholar and Phi Beta Kappa, promised to do his best to meet the association's requirements by 1956. If the General Assembly only gives him enough money, said he, "there is little doubt that this purpose will be accomplished...
...miller, after General Mills), succeeding Charles Ritz, 63, who moved up to chairman. Bean's grandfather founded the firm in 1892. and his father, Francis A. Bean, is retiring as chairman. The new president is an honor graduate of Minnesota's Carleton College ('31), and Rhodes scholar. He joined International in 1937, had a wartime stint at OPA and in Army Intelligence. He was made executive vice president in 1944 and has concentrated on modernizing the mills...
...Maine poet, novelist (Lost Paradise, Red Sky in the Morning), regional historian (Kennebec: Cradle of Americans), lecturer and professor of English at Maine's Bowdoin College: of a heart attack; in Portland, Me. Raised on a Maine saltwater farm, Coffin began writing poetry while a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, soon became a popular favorite for his nostalgic ballads of Maine life and Maine people. An ardent believer in poetry as a popular art, he read his works to audiences all over the U.S., inveighed against the "shoddy and jaded intellectualism" of most modern poets, called instead for "instances...
Courtney C. Smith '38, President of Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa., was a Rhodes Scholar and a teaching fellow in English at Harvard. He has been American secretary of the Rhodes Scholarships since...