Word: scholaritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...composition of the House is largely the result of the personal philosophy of its master, John H. Finley. Scholar, aristocrat, and amateur, Master Finley has sought out boys who combine excellence in specific areas with broad interests and social grace. He is among the few masters who know every boy in their houses by name. Leaving organized activities to undergraduates, Master Finley devotes most of his time to individual members of the House and his recommendations have helped many of them to get into graduate schools and to obtain jobs. An urbane after-dinner speaker, Finley annually organizes a series...
Kirkland's staff is hardly drab. Master Charles H. Taylor, a medieval scholar, has a strong interest in intramural athletics and serves on the Faculty Committee on Athletic Sports. Ernest R. May, associate professor of History and the Kirkland House billiards champion, is senior tutor. William Alfred, lecturer in English 10 and Hum 2, eats lunch frequently in Kirkland at tables filled with undergraduates...
Guest Room for Guy. Son of St. John Philby, the famed desert explorer and Arab scholar, "Kim" Philby carried on an undergraduate flirtation with Communism at Cambridge, where he first knew Burgess. After covering the Spanish Civil War for the London Times, he joined M.I.6-Britain's overseas intelligence branch-during World War II, won the Order of the British Empire for his espionage work. After the war, he transferred to the Foreign Service, in 1949 was posted to the British embassy in Washington as first secretary and chief of security. Though crowded in a house with his second wife...
...Andrew Morton, who will publish his findings next month in a volume of New Testament studies, got his evidence from an electronic computer operated by the University of London. Until now, Morton argues, scholars could only question Paul's authorship on the basis of their personal, subjective analysis of the literary style of the Epistles, and "evidence" that convinced one scholar often left another unimpressed. Investigator Morton decided to use statistics instead of intuition...
...test his hypothesis on the Epistles, Morton started with the assumption that Paul was indeed the author of Galatians (an attribution no scholar questions), fed every sentence in the Epistles to the computer for kai counting. Morton's conclusion: "There are four Epistles which were written by a man whose vocabulary had a constant proportion of kais in it, who used his kais in a consistent pattern and who, by definition, must be the Apostle Paul. The other ten Epistles exhibit diverse characteristics and must have come from at least three other hands...