Word: scholares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...behind this activity is five-ten and well built. His personal trademarks are a bow tie, a gleaming white shirt, and a guttural voice which rises with his intensity of expression until it approximates a squawk. Dunlop is basically a scholar and teacher, but he has an intense desire to merge the practical world with the academic. He likes to quote Whitehead: "It is the union of passionate interest in detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalization which forms the novelty in our present society...
...student could skip as many semesters as he was capable, provided he could pay the bursar fifteen dollars for every term passed. A "good moral character" was also necessary if the student was to have full approval from the Faculty. By 1857 course requirements had tightened, leaving the scholar little choice in his curriculum. The only lenient measure was a course reduction that allowed the student's father to request that such subjects as Greek or Latin be omitted from his son's long list of required languages. With the Civil War came a trend toward less rigid requirements...
...sole entertainment will be Harvard's perennial scholar and singer of songs Tom Lehrer, who writes the words and music for the little ditties which he sings while accompanying himself on the piano. He retired from the University last year after ten years. In the last four of his years of graduate work; he held a teaching fellowship in Math...
...moment of historic inspiration, David Owen once organized a society called "The Sons of the Whiskey Rebellion" to invigorate a staid, scholarly convention. Though accomplishing it purpose, the society was short-lived; it lasted only three days and three nights. But, as most of his students will testify, Owen's capacity for enlivening history has survived. A descendant of two Baptist ministers and one teacher, Owen lectures in a style reminiscent of both the preacher and the scholar. He adds, characteristically, a strong dose of humor, often sardonic, to keep the state of British history in lively repair...
...wants to see him. He maintains close contact with his old friends in the U.S., among them ex-President Harry Truman. Even his sharpest critics acknowledge that his political sense has accomplished much for Greek-Turkish relations. Says one of them: "Athenagoras is not essentially an ecclesiast or a scholar. He is a religio-politician. But I must admit that he is a man of great vision...