Word: scholares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shortly after Matheissen's entrance into the Department, a fourth giant was added: Perry G. E. Miller, who made his Harvard debut by aiding Murdock with English 33 and later taking over Matthiesson's course in sectional American literature. Miller has since established himself as perhaps the foremost scholar on colonial literature, and has kept himself yoked to English 33 (or 7) for almost 25 years...
...this time Greenough had retired from active teaching, but another scholar came to fill his place. His name was Howard Mumford Jones, and he broke into U.S. literature at Harvard by teaching part of the course which he still heads, English...
...brags were inadvertent admissions of the depth of the unrest. Only a week earlier, Dr. Hu Shih, modern China's most eminent philosopher and most respected scholar, speaking for Nationalist China at the U.N. for the first time since 1945, documented some of the details of last summer's student revolt that the regime had tried hard to suppress. It began, said Dr. Hu Shih, with a meeting of 8,000 students at Peking University, where 19 student leaders openly attacked the Communists' suppression of freedom, spread when the leaders launched a periodical calling on students...
...funds for his Aquinas Foundation and for his "work, which has revealed a moral degradation at Princeton," Halton turned on one of the university's most distinguished names, Jacques Maritain. Three years ago, Halton revealed, he barred Maritain from speaking at the foundation-even though the French scholar is regarded by many as the foremost living Catholic philosopher. Huffed Halton: "Dr. Maritain does not have a very sound philosophical background ... I can think of no man whose teaching at Princeton has had less influence on the students than Maritain, and I'm not totally displeased...
...Seas ill (Cecil) said that More low (Marlowe) or Shak'st spurre (Shakespeare) never writ a word of them," convinced himself that Bacon had written the plays to conceal "the inner history of his times, in cipher." But no sooner had Donnelly published his theory than another scholar used his methods to produce the message: "Master Will I Am Shak'st spurre writ the play...