Word: scholaritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tackling his topic, today's linguistics scholar often must command one or more of such diverse fields of expertise as psychology, biology, mathematics, even electrical engineering or analytic philosophy. As it develops, the discipline has spawned such hybrids or specialties as computational linguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, even biological linguistics. All of which has led to a far higher standing in academe than universities traditionally accorded their linguists, who until recently were normally employed as mere appendages to anthropology or foreign-language departments...
...academic discipline, the study of linguistics can probably be traced back to 400 B.C., when the Indian scholar Panini worked out the first systematic description of Sanskrit. Its recent recognition, however, stems largely from the spirited intellectual battle now going on between two opposing schools: structural linguistics, led by Yale's Leonard Bloomfield in the 1930s and today defended most vigorously by Charles Hockett of Cornell, and the newer transformational linguistics, which was conceived and developed by Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
DAVID Owen, in the words of his colleagues, was perhaps the greatest contemporary American historian of England. Yet he could have become a greater scholar than he was. Instead, Professor Owen directed much of his time into teaching, into Winthrop House, and into the History Department. He was easily one of Harvard's two or three most popular lecturers, and undergraduate and graduate students flocked to him for individual supervision. His warmth and understanding brought him many demands as a Master and administrator. In no way a prima donna, Professor Owen did not refuse burdensome tasks that required sound judgment...
...professor of English at Harvard, giving his own upper-level courses in Elizabethan English Literature, as well as sharing the guidance of Hum 6 with venerable Reuben Brower. He has studied at Princeton (where he graduated summa cum laude in 1956) and Oxford (where he went as a Rhodes Scholar for three years) and Harvard (where he got his Ph.D...
...Center for Research on Creative Altruism may tempt some to make light of Sorokin. But he was a scholar and an innovator, and his books will be studied by sociologists for many years...