Word: scholares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scholar, Tolkien is well aware of the successes and failures which have marked the progression of both the epic and the language. He has faced the obstacles of any modern epic-maker: comprehending and making meaningful an ever-more-complex pattern of human existence and understanding, and evoking both awareness and awe with an increasingly vulgarized language. In these terms, he has succeeded...
...Ulysses diminishes . . . from comic epic to the curiosity of a learned crossword puzzle and, as such, a major, unrequited European export to the scholar-technicians of the American universities. They find more and more in it, as we find less and less...
Another questioner asked how Harvard's Russian Research Center avoided being an "echo of Communist propaganda." President Pusey replied that the scholar "is the last to reflect propaganda." He further asserted that "the belief that teachers are corrupted by the party line is a myth...
...clock: For the wandering scholar Scandinavian 50 provides useful literary, artistic, and social cultural information about the Scandinavian countries. This can be acquired with no knowledge of the Scandinavian languages. Returning after a year's absence, Robert Chapman brings with him drama from Ibsen to Helman. The stage is Emerson D. History of Religions 101b offers a unique opportunity. Interested students can become Hindus, Brahmins, Buddhists, and Moslems--for about a week or two apiece. For those who prefer, there are also selected Christian heretical doctrines...
While this ruling would have an obvious impact on such groups as Stanford's "Buck of the Month Club," its impact on the heavily regulated Ivy League is still uncertain. The Ivy League bans "try outs" and prohibits alumni clubs from paying travel of prospective scholar athletes to the Ivy schools. Alumni do, however, expend considerable personal and/or club funds on trips to interview the prospects in their areas. Such expenses under the new rule could no longer be exempted as contributions to charitable institutions. Expenditures of Ivy coaches are still met by the universities themselves, which are excluded from...