Word: scholares
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Shunning academic advancement and the glory of publication, Sweeney is primarily a teacher and a scholar. He is "a superb instructor, thoroughly Socratic," one of the section men in his Humanities 3 course has said. "He brings his class by questions to points that I could present only in a lecture...
This humble search for the meaning of human expression is John Sweeney's passion. "A dilletante in the best sense," as a friend described him, he approaches art with the scholar's understanding and the poet's enthusiasm...
Thompson, a Rhodes Scholar, is a former president of the CRIMSON and of the Union Debating Society. He is also a member of Phillips Brooks House and a varsity fencer. Meigs, the 1955 captain of the varsity football team, is president of the Undergraduate Athletic Council...
...accessible) out-of-relation to particular instances of it. You have to decide whether this or that concrete thing is true or not. There is, of course, no guarantee that every decision you will make will be the right one. Yet, you cannot help but make such decisions. The scholar who thinks it is best not to take a stand on a disputed issue has thereby already made a crucial decision, a decision which implies he thinks all the claims to truth with which he is dealing are either false, or not worth his commitment...
There is an enormous difference between the arrogant doctrinaire (who undoubtedly exists in many academic quarters) who feels he has nothing to learn from men of other views and who will refuse to consider facts that may threaten his doctrinal security, and the scholar who commits himself to views he considers correct at the time when they are under his scrutiny. To accept certain theological conclusions no more disqualifies a person from competent scholarship in this field than belief in democracy and voting in election time disqualifies a man from competent research in the field of Government...