Word: scholaritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seven seminaries are within a few minutes' walk of one another on what Berkeleyites call "Holy Hill"; the others are within easy driving distance. But what made the Union necessary was the high cost of academic improvements. Although the individual seminaries have plenty of topflight teachers - Old Testament Scholar James Muilenberg at the Presbyterian San Francisco Theological Seminary, Systematic Theologian Keith Bridston at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary - none of the schools ranked among the nation's best. Only two had doctoral programs, and their libraries ranged from average to inadequate. Back in 1959, the seminary presidents began meeting...
Pitzer's biggest asset is that its own inventive enthusiasm is teamed in comforting alliance with the Claremont Colleges, which will help pay Pitzer's bills until the school is self-sufficient. In the words of Classics Scholar Stephen Glass, a Pomona graduate: "There is newness here without risk...
Former Rhodes Scholar Nason, 59, has himself had only three employers since he finished college. In 1953 he was lured away from Swarthmore after 22 years there (13 as president) to head Manhattan's Foreign Policy Association. Nine years later, in 1962, he became Carleton's first alumnus to head the school. He calls it "my last major...
...appeared the first two volumes-Genesis and The Epistles of James, Peter and Jude-of a new version in English that is something of an ecumenical milestone. It is Doubleday's Anchor Bible, the first translation in history to combine the labors of Roman Catholic, Protestant and Jewish scholars. Edited by William Foxwell Albright of Johns Hopkins, a Methodist, and Presbyterian David Noel Freedman of San Francisco Theological Seminary, the Anchor Bible is intended for the scholar as well as for the general reader; each Anchor volume will include an elaborate introduction and commentary...
...Homer's account of heroic single combats before Troy, took on a young baronet named Sir Thomas Styles in a fist fight. "Shelley stalked round the ring and spouted one of the defiant addresses usual with Homer's heroes: the young poet, being a first-rate classical scholar, actually delivered the speech in the original Greek." But stubby young Sir Thomas delivered "a heavy slogger" to Shelley's middle, and the poet turned tail and ran. Not many years later, Gronow reports with disinterest, young Styles was driven mad by fleas and heat during the Peninsular...