Word: scholares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...director of the university's European Institute, in 1949 was appointed provost and later vice president. He also found time to serve on the U.S. delegation at Dumbarton Oaks and to help set up the U.N. Security Council in San Francisco. A trim, vigorous scholar, Dr. Kirk has already demonstrated his ability to manage the complicated affairs of the university. There will be little new to him about his new job except the title, the salary (a reported $30,000 a year) and use of the stately old president's mansion that was occupied so long...
Quiet and unassuming, Buck has been a history scholar for most of his life, specializing in the post Civil War south. For his "Road To Reunion", which narrates the South's effort in post-war Reconstruction, Buck received in 1938 a Fulitzer Prize...
...works which are clearly written but have little philosophical heft. In a new book, The Retreat from Christianity in the Modern World (Longmans; $2.75), an English visitor has set his American friends a good mark to shoot at. The Rev. Julian Victor Langmead Cas-serley, 43, is a cheerful scholar who this year took over the chair of dogmatic theology at Manhattan's General Theological Seminary (Episcopalian). His new book is a readable discussion, reinforced with some painless history lessons, about the broad problems of Christianity in the 20th century world...
...Scholar & Showman. It takes a peculiar combination of scholar, executive and showman to run a venture like the Metropolitan. Francis Taylor seems to have the combination. Says a friend: "He has the administrative ability of Eisenhower and the scheming patience of Machiavelli, and he bears a striking resemblance to Rodin's bust of Louis XVI." Moreover, and more important, he can work in harness with such diverse types as learned curators and unlearned but connoisseur trustees...
...like Douglas Southall Freeman, have poked about in the national past for sheer love of it. Ward spent the last years of his life on a military history of the American Revolution, and the result, now published, is -a monumental affair, packed with battle detail as vivid as either scholar or layman could want...