Word: scholares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both encouragement and warning came from an invited guest. Dr. Hu Shih, 62-year-old ex-diplomat and philosopher, is China's most honored scholar in a civilization which accords scholars a respect akin to reverence. Hu Shih has always refused to join the Kuomintang, has often been regarded as a possible rallying point by intellectuals among the 13 million overseas Chinese who were both anti-Communist and anti-Kuomintang. Hu Shih disowned such disciples. He had come all the way from New York (where he has lived since 1949), he said, because "I feel it a moral obligation...
...idea that Harvard is the only place in the world where you can live as a scholar," Pusey warned. The University "breeds" that idea in its members, but it has little solid basis in fact, he said...
...temperament a scholar or a student, then by all means go into teaching." President Nathan M. Pusey told the Education Career Conference in Kirkland House last night...
...tradition. The concept of academic tenure is a delicate one that has grown up partly because the teacher has historically been a favorite target for attack. It is simply another way of saying that a man's mind cannot exist half slave and half free, that if a scholar is to operate effectively on the frontiers of his field, he must also be accorded the rights of any other citizen to differ and dissent outside that field. Harvard has refused to fire four teachers who invoked the Fifth Amendment because they are not now members of the party, have...
...partly due to a heroic combination of energy and diverse talents. The U.S. has had few public officials who could get equal enjoyment from shooting a charging rhino or writing an essay on Dante, from outwitting Manhattan's Tammany politicians or swapping opinions on Roman history with British scholar friends. It was also true that later generations, notably those raised under the administration of Teddy's cousin, Franklin Delano, could see Teddy, politically speaking, only in the perspective of successors like Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge. This was to see him very dimly indeed...