Word: scholaritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Science Editor Jonathan Norton Leonard, who wrote this week's cover story on Nelson Glueck, considers himself something of an amateur Biblical scholar and regards the Bible as "an extraordinary record of ancient history as well as beautiful literature." This has long been Archaeologist Glueck's thesis, and his Biblical scholarship has often helped him locate sites in the Holy Land. One memento from Glueck that Leonard treasures is a piece of slag from King Solomon's copper mines, which Glueck rediscovered...
...collection of ironical essays commented on recently in the CRIMSON and with which I am sufficiently identified, mention is made of a absent minded professor of comparative literature at Harvard. I am reminded that this might conceivably be taken as a reference to either a very great scholar recently dead or to one of my very great friends, Actually, of course, a generic academic type and no particular person was intended. I do not know why this department was selected. It is a mark of the inadvertence that in the earliest published version of the piece, the reference...
When Clive Staples Lewis died of a heart attack a few days before his 65th birthday last week, the London obituaries generously summed up the impressive achievements of an impressive scholar. He had been a witty, well-attended lecturer at Oxford, a brilliant professor of medieval and Renaissance literature at Cambridge; his studies of Spenser and Milton were already critical classics. Oxbridge will remember him for that; to the rest of the Christian world, C. S. Lewis was one of the church's minor prophets, a defender of the faith who with fashionable urbanity justified an unfashionable orthodoxy against...
...strong, self-reliant, brave, determined, practical, objective, hardworking, intelligent, flexible, responsible, humble, religious, Godfearing, altruistic, no egghead, socially attractive, good-natured, friendly, and a rugged individualist with high moral character and good judgment." The alumni do not demand that on top of all this he must also be a "scholar...
Died. Clive Staples Lewis, 64, Oxbridge don, scholar of the Renaissance, present-day Christian epistler second to none; of a heart attack; in Oxford (see RELIGION...