Word: scholaritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John L. Clive, a historian of England, has been appointed professor of History and Literature. He is the first person to hold the title since the death of eminent scholar Francis Otto Matthieson...
Clive's appointment will give History and Literature, the oldest field of concentrated study in the college, its own senior scholar. Since the program began in 1906, it has been conducted by a committee of scholars drawn from the departments of History and the major literatures...
EUGENE ONEGIN, translation and commentary in four volumes by Vladimir Nabokov. Polylingual, and a poet in his own right, Novelist-Scholar Nabokov (Pale Fire) has translated Alexander Pushkin's remarkable 19th century novel-in-verse with a sense of accuracy and range of meaning closer to the original Russian than any previous version. Nabokov's supplementary volumes of notes provide the amusing, exasperating and always impressive sight of the crusty Nabokov literary personality in action...
Died. Dr. Thomas Henry Carroll, 50, president of George Washington University since 1961, a take-charge scholar-administrator who, having revamped the business schools at the Universities of Syracuse and North Carolina, was picked to vitalize the capital's lackluster university, within three years increased enrollment by 17% (to 11,246), boosted the budget for faculty salaries by 50%, and initiated a building program that has already tripled student dormitory facilities; of a heart attack; in Bluemont...
...Scholar's Craft. But such scholarly capering should not obscure the worth of Nabokov's commentary. The translation can be enjoyed but not really understood without it. And Nabokov, who learned his craft during years of professing at Wellesley and Cornell, is not merely a translator; he is also a truly remarkable teacher. He keeps the students awake...