Word: scholaritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kits, which cost $1.35 each, are remarkably close to what U.S. curriculum reformers have been crying for: "postholing" case studies that dig deep into key historical events and by suggestion and inference tell the contextual history. Author of the new series is John Langdon-Davies, a sometime history scholar, novelist and war correspondent, who reckons that he knows something about engaging young minds. At 67, he has seven children, ranging downward in age from 44 to three...
Pease was a leading scholar of Vergil and Cicero. His monumental work, a critical edition of Cicero's De Natura Deorum, appeared after his retirement...
...Harvard University Press sends a letter to all retail book stores authorizing a reduction in price to thirty-nine cents for President Pusey's Age of the Scholar "as a means of increasing sales of this timely book." Discovery of the inscription "Guaranteed Puncture-Proof" on a piece of liver served in the Lowell House Dining Hall sparks a University investigation of Central Kitchens practices...
Attempting to promote sales of President Pusey's Age of the Scholar, the Harvard Cooperative Society advertises a "special fifteen percent patronage refund on cash purchases of this timely work...
...Harvard University Press says it is "astounded" to learn that the Office of National Security has ordered the purchase of all existing copies of Age of the Scholar "for free distribution in Indonesia and Thailand." Asked why the book is being sent to non-English speaking countries, McGeorge Bundy, Director of the Office, replies tersely, "The reason is obvious...