Word: scholares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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. Raney 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...
Davis, a news analyst for the American Broadcasting Company was director of the Office of War Information during World War II. He graduated from Franklin College and later went to Queen's College at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar...
...Bluffs, Iowa 46 years ago, Nathan Pusey (rhymes with newsy) went to Harvard after graduating from his home-town high school. At college, he became fascinated by ancient history, won a fellowship to study in Greece, wrote his Ph.D. thesis on Athenian law. Since then he has followed a scholar's career: at Lawrence, Scripps College in Claremont, Calif., Wesleyan University, and finally back to Lawrence as president...
Saga of a Scholar. It had taken the dean himself quite a while to digest the news, but last week the whole saga came out. "Peters," it seemed, was really Robert Parkins, an Anglican priest who had been arrested in Britain for bigamy. He had never been to Oxford or taken an M.A. at Adelaide; nor had he earned a music degree from Durham...
Dean Sperry who came to Harvard in 1921, had previously been a professor at Andover Theological Seminary. He went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, from which he obtained his B.A. in Theology with first class honors. Dean Sperry received an honorary D.D. from Harvard...