Word: scholares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...insult, the University requires each voyaging scholar to be acompanied by a (male) proctor, and every time Nature calls one of the weaker sex, she emerges from the giant portals of New Lecture Hall with an escort...
...Until this moment," said the commission's able executive secretary, ex-Rhodes Scholar Mekki Abbas of the Sudan, when the program was approved, "I had my doubts about this...
...should have the ringing rhetoric of a tent-meeting preacher and the money-making genius of a loan shark, but first of all, a college president should be a scholar. Last week the heads of two of the nation's most prestigious women's educational institutions gave evidence that whatever he does, a scholar is not necessarily happy as a college president. The two presidents, both of whom resigned...
...administrative duties piled up. Recently Taylor's best-reported diversion has been a low-comedy wrangle with the Westchester County American Legion, to whom Sarah Lawrence's progressive-education scheme of life (no formal majors, no grades) smells of left-wingery. Determined to return to a scholar's life, he wrote: "The steadily increasing burden of responsibility placed upon the American college president for administering and financing education has become so great that it removes from him the opportunity to share in the intellectual and educational life...
Cobb was himself a Pennoyer scholar and is a descendant of Robert Pennoyer, who founded the fund...