Word: scholares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...18th Century. The center has also set up cooperative professorships so that two or more colleges can share a scholar they would not have been able to afford alone. It has arranged intercampus conferences in special fields, compiled a catalogue of all periodicals in the members' libraries, organized a joint adult education program with an enrollment of 7,000. Last week member deans and presidents added other projects, e.g., a plan by which six or seven of the smaller campuses would share the cost and use of an atomic reactor, and another to enable five colleges to share...
There, in the annual Oration and Poem, the emphasis on "the promotion of literature" is just as strong as it was when Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered his famous address on "The American Scholar" in 1837. In it, in lines which nineteenth century schoolchildren recited at class ceremonies, he expressed the ambitious thoughts which might be the motto of the Phi Beta Kappa Society itself...
...scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be an university of knowledges. If there be one lesson more than another which should pierce his ear, it is, the world is nothing, the man is all; yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all; it is for you to dare...
...houses and wildcatters, requests for handouts that add up to more money than he has won. The town of Cornwall (pop. 1,100), where 26 Van Dorens gather each summer, asked him to finance a new fire engine, and some of Charles's schools would like endowments. One scholar suggested that Charlie endow a chair for himself at Columbia. One in four letters comes from a teacher, parent or student thanking Van Doren for taking the curse off studying. "I'm damned happy about those letters," he says...
...mental marathon is not what he says-which is fascinating enough-but the fact that he can say anything at all before the implacable eye of the television camera. "Why, I couldn't say a word up there with those earphones and all," marvels one distinguished Columbia scholar. "I'd come completely unstuck...