Word: scholares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Byzantine Empire extended roughly from the Adriatic on the West, the Danube on the North, the Euphrates on the East, and Palestine on the South, students must be able to command not only Greek, Latin, and French, but German, and the Slavic tongues or Arabic depending on the scholar's inclination...
...Quality of the courses indicates one of Gen Ed's greatest contributions to Harvard education. Unlike a department, the Committee has no use for the teaching services of the great scholar who bores students. It can altar or junk a course, and its repeated efforts to find or create an acceptable course in the biological sciences form one example. It would be hard to tell whether this influence has yet spread to other departments, but it certainly affects the many teaching fellows the Committee employs, the men who will climb the academic ladder to tenure in the departments eventually. This...
...last year, twelve degrees were awarded. To Goheen, the classics scholar who will succeed Harold W. Dodds as president of Princeton was awarded the LL.D. with the citation: We salute the chosen one of a favorite sister...
...former government workers, twelve former businessmen, eight journalists and two lawyers pore over projects with an earnest and refreshingly optimistic determination to do what they can for the world. These projects can emerge in various ways-from a casual conversation at a cocktail party, from a request by some scholar or university, or from some great scheme cooked up by the staffmen themselves. All projects of over $500,000 must be passed by the full board of trustees,* which meets four times a year in a conference room with one wall lined with photographs of their predecessors and themselves. Between...
With so much money to give, a foundation can easily tempt a scholar to distort his work in order to be pleasing ("Of course," says one Midwest political scientist, "professors distort and tailor their project requests. They aren't dumb. If they know the magic words to say to the foundation boys, they're going to say them"). The foundation must also be wary of overselling a university on a project that it really has no business taking on. It must support group-research projects-for teamwork is the trend-but it must be careful not to slight...