Word: scholares
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Crew Captain William W. Geertsema '54, of Groningen, Netherlands, and Winthrop House, has been awarded the Francis Hardon Burr Scholarship as the outstanding scholar athlete in the Class of 1954, it was announced yesterday...
...Schools of Oriental Research, Dr. Frank M. Cross Jr., now at the school in Jerusalem, discussed a part of the Qumran find-27 fragments from the first and second chapters of Samuel I-recently pieced together and translated. Some of his fragments differ from existing Hebrew Biblical texts, and Scholar Cross believes they should be accepted as older and nearer the original than any other extant version. Among the corrections and additions he offers: Eli, the priest, was 90 years old at his death (not 98, as the King James version has it); Samuel, whose mother pledged...
Such corrections and additions, Dr. Cross hints, are only the beginning. When the Qumran fragments are finally edited, scholars will have for the first time a roughly contemporary Hebrew check on the Greek Septuagint, for centuries the bulwark of Old Testament translators. They will also have some important revisions to make in the work of those scholars who had a habit of trying to solve a corrupted Biblical text by speculation on the translator's sociological background. The entire job of editing the Qumran texts, now being done jointly by the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem...
David Korn '54 of Providence, R.I. and Lowell House will receive this year's Palfrey Exhibition award as "the most distinguished scholar in the Senior Class who is a recipient of a stipendiary scholarship...