Word: scholares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...films were obtained from the West German government by Otte Bachmann, James B. Contant exchange scholar. One shows the 1953 East Berlin riots, and the other a Leipzig youth rally...
Richard E. Beinhorn from the University of Freiburg, Germany, and Jorgen S. Jensen from the University of Copenhagen are two of the visitors in this year's program. Beinhorn is a Fulbright scholar, While Jensen came to the United States with the aid of a grant from the Institute of International Education. Both intend to write their doctorate theses on American subjects...
...interest in teaching, Gilmore is also a quiet and persistent scholar. His particular bent is the relation of Humanism to Renaissance political and social thought. Currently he is preparing a study on "Freedom and Determinism in Renaissance Historians." Because his work has dealt mostly with intellectual history, Gilmore was particularly pleased several years ago when Professor Langer approached him with the request that he write the Renaissance volume for the "Langer Series." "It gave me a chance to explore all sides of the field," he says. The result was The World of Humanism. Along with a copy of the Gutenberg...
...Groton, Averell did not distinguish himself; he was a fairly good scholar, pleasant, modest, quiet, well-mannered, but he won no prizes. At Yale he was again just average as a student. It was at Yale that Averell Harriman's record first showed the intensity of concentration that has never left him. He became a bridge addict. After a bridge session, Averell would return to his room and sit for hours doing postmortems. He learned to memorize the hands and plays, and then would reconstruct them. His daughter Kathleen (Mrs. Stanley G. Mortimer Jr.), recalling his stories of this...
Another one-time scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study, Morton G. White, professor of Philosophy and chairman of the department of Philosophy, called Harvard's appointment of Oppenheimer "a testimony not only to his great distinction as a scientist, but also an expression of the scholarly world's appreciation of his breadth of interest, his cultivation, and his profound understanding of the situation in which man finds himself today...