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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These student theses have been circulated in libraries throughout the country and have provided scholars with interesting and sometimes illuminating descussions of topics which have not been otherwise fully explored. The whole Far East, in fact, is wide open, a veritable gold mine for the enterprising scholar. M. A. candidates often use their theses as preliminaries to Ph.D. works, and from there, it is hoped, to works of outstanding scholarly merit...

Author: By Bernad M. Gwertzman and John G. Wofford, S | Title: Regional Studies: A War Baby Grows Up | 12/9/1955 | See Source »

...national center for Arctic research. It is also one of the few small (3,006 students) liberal-arts colleges to have a Department of Russian Civilization. But in ten years. Dickey has made a name for himself as more than an able administrator. A practical man with a scholar's tastes, he has earnestly tried to produce alumni who will be men of both thought and action. "I do want," he once said, "this generation of educated men of Dartmouth [to] be 'doers of the word and not hearers only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: For Civilized Competence | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

...dogged scholar, he worked all hours of the night ("What people who need more sleep than I do call insomnia was a help"), and even when sick ("I find that what I write while the annual virus is working in me is as good, or as bad, and as plentiful as what I write when I can breathe through my nose"). He spent his vacations inspecting battle sites and tracing the country's great expeditions. Eventually he came to know as much about the opening of the American West as any man alive. His The Year of Decision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Challenger | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

...scores of Harvard students who, he thought, had a sincere desire to be writers. But when it came to sham-either academic or political-he could be merciless. Occasionally, his reputation for sounding off on everything, whether big or small, tended to becloud his reputation as a serious scholar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Challenger | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

Julia Ann Harris was born Dec. 2, 1925, well on the right side of the Detroit tracks. Her father, an investment banker, was a rich man by inheritance and a scholar by nature. Her mother, a girl from Jersey City, is described as "a charming and soignee woman." The family was conservative, but there was a theatrical taint in the blood. Julie's great-grandfather had a longing to tread the boards, but mounted the pulpit instead. He became the second Episcopal bishop of Michigan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: A Fiery Particle | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

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