Word: scholaritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American citizenship, joined the Communist Party, and gone off to Africa. Yer, although DuBois turned away from the United States in disgust, he never spoke of his birthplace without a warm vibrancy in his voice and a soft look in his eyes. Last Saturday William Edward Barghardt DuBois, scholar, sociologist, historian, editor, publisher, and racial activist in a sense returned to Great Barrington. A memorial park in his name was dedicated on the site of the Black Burghardts...
Though Burns seems in many respects to be a typical New England Yankee, he was born in Eastern Galicia, then a region of the Austro-Hungarian Empire but now part of the Ukraine. An earnest scholar, he was able to translate the Talmud into Polish and German by the time he was six. His family emigrated to the U.S. when he was nine and settled at Bayonne, N.J., where his father became a paperhanger, a trade that Burns learned as a schoolboy...
Professor Nye wore a blue-striped, long-sleeved, well-pressed shirt. Young, vigorous, and prematurely balding. No coat, no tie. Oh, if Master Pappenheimer should see him. I was sure he was a Rhodes scholar. Princeton and Oxford it turns out. I was in the office later to hear his secretary phone for a squash court reservation for Friday at 5 p.m. I don't think that I could get my little brother to phone for a squash court reservation. But then I don't pay my little brother...
...addition to the constant flow of new ideas from one scholar-administrator to another, the Center's Tenth Annual Report says that "The Fellows also traveled widely in the United States. They made a number of trips together, including a two-day visit to Dearborn, Michigan, as guests of the Ford Motor Company...
Student membership on the Faculty's Standing Committee on Afro-American Studies is a "dubious precedent" for further reform of the University's decision-making process, Henry, Rosovsky, professor of Economics, wrote in the latest issue of the magazine American Scholar...