Word: scholares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much the same as the first (1878), and after World War II, London's Macmillan & Co. decided it was high time for a completely revised edition. After nearly ten years of labor-by about 500 contributors under the stern supervision of London Music Critic and Scholar Eric Blom-Grove V is out at last. Almost twice as big as the 1940 edition, it runs to a weighty nine volumes (at $127.50 a set) that fascinatingly reflect the world of music in mid-20th century...
...Substantially as planned and edited by Sir George Grove (1820-1900), London civil engineer, biblical scholar and Zin Arthur music commentator, who was secretary of the Crystal Palace and first director of the Royal College of Music. - And sometimes quaint. Samples: "Charles,? ('Mr. Charles') b. ?, d. ?. Prob. Hungarian 18th-century horn player and clarinettist. He is a shadowy but important figure, since he was the first named performer on the clarinet in the British Isles." "ZUFFOLO. In modern Italian, the name for the tin whistle. [There is] no reason for concluding, as some have done, that [the] zuffolo...
...American Rugby player at Oxford, Rhodes Scholar Vincent W. Jones, 24, a blond California giant (6 ft. 3 in., 227 Ibs.), had several surprises. Jones knew the rules, but not the British customs. After his first Oxford game-against Richmond, on Oct. 16-he assumed that he had made the team, showed up the following Monday for practice. But the other players were shocked, and the team secretary took him aside and explained patiently that one must not show up for practice unless one receives an engraved invitation (5 in. by 3 in.) from the team captain...
Visiting at Columbia University's Teachers College, stronghold of the educational tenet that corporal punishment leaves enduring bruises on a child's emotions, Britain's Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein spoke up in favor of using the rod. Admittedly no great shakes as a scholar,*Monty, who got an honorary doctor of laws degree from Columbia's President Grayson Kirk, gave a lecture on "Education for Leadership." Said he: "I'm for beating the bad boys-not the girls ... A boy cannot be expected to imagine . . . the misery and pain he has the power...
...Manhattan, the U.S. Tax Court rendered a decision that should delight many a U.S. scholar. In a suit brought by a Guggenheim fellow who did not like the idea of paying a $178 tax on his $1,000 grant, the court ruled: such grants are not income but gifts; no tax need be paid...