Word: scholares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Howard's Alain Locke, 66, a fussy little (5 ft. 4 in., 104 Ibs.) man with a shabby old briefcase, known to scholars all over the U.S. as the foremost Negro philosopher. At Harvard Locke studied under Royce, James and Santayana, went on to Oxford as the first Negro Rhodes scholar. Since 1912, his pince-nez quivering on his nose, he has prodded and cajoled two generations of students into raising the intellectual sights of their race: "A minority is only safe & sound in terms of its social intelligence . . . When you're up against the mass irrationality...
CARDANO: THE GAMBLING SCHOLAR, With a translation of Cardano's Book on Games of Chance (249 pp.)-Oysteln Ore-Princeton University...
...speculating on such matters as the immortality of the soul and how to forecast the future by a study of warts. ("A woman with a wart upon her left cheek, a little to the left of the dimple, will eventually be poisoned by her husband.") But when the distinguished scholar wrote his Book on Games of Chance, he discussed gambling less as a medical doctor than as one of the most knowledgeable crapshooters ever to rattle a pair of dice...
...bring happiness. One of Cardano's sons became a thief, the other was executed for poisoning his wife. Cardano was jailed as a heretic for a while, but argued his way free. Death, when it came to him at 75, one day in 1576, found a quiet old scholar, living on a pope's pension in Rome. The old gambler had long since told himself: "The greatest advantage in gambling comes from not playing...
Among the eminent men on the Lawrence faculty are Herbert Spiegelberg of the philosophy department, recently awarded a Guggenheim Grant to study phenomenology in Germany; Warren Beck, the novelist; Craig Thompson, an Erasmus scholar; and William F. Rancy in history. In the last three years, eight faculty members have applied for Ford Fellowships for study abroad and all eight have been accepted. Professors credit much of this record to Pusey; not only does he pick superior men, but he encourages the worthy professors to compete for the awards. Many college presidents hesitate to allow their best men the year...