Word: scholaritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...retiring scholar, who shaped the Linguistics Department almost single-handedly, came to Harvard in 1926 after holding a professorship of Latin the Egyptian University in Cairo...
...Divinity School had hoped to bring the Thomist scholar Etienne Gilson from France to fill the professorship. When a sudden illness prevented Gilson from coming, it was decided to use the funds from the chair to sponsor the conference...
John H. Finley, Master of Eliot House, where Nock lived in quarters built especially for him at the time of its construction, described Nock as an extraordinary scholar and a warm...
...young man, he was a stupor mundi," Finley said. "He lived very thoroughly the life of a professional scholar. He was not very active in the House, but he loved it. He got to know some of the undergraduates and sometimes he would come up behind one, tap him on the shoulder and quote some unintelligible Latin, or English which sounded like Latin...
Nock's undergraduate course, History of Religions 101, was well-known to students at the University. Undergraduates packed the front rows of seats at his lectures, straining to hear what the sometimes unintelligible scholar was saying