Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nineteen centuries of foundered orgy looked up at the hydroairplane which last week waltzed high over Lake Nemi in the Alban hills back of Rome. And Giuseppe Cultrera, Etruscan scholar in the plane,* looked down from the vantage of his flying height through Nemi's waters and could see what none but groping divers theretofore had seen?the sunken Golden Barge whereon epileptic Emperor Caligula?, great-grandson of Augustus, and his minions held their carouses...
...could not avoid concluding that it thoroughly resembled the condition of the traditional nouveau riche's library, who had arranged his books only by the size and color of their bindings and for consequent display of their beauty to his friends, in contra-distinction to that of the scholar, whose library is arranged by subjects, and for utility and his progress in study...
...head of a large university. More recently President Butler of Columbia has been continually active in the affairs of his party, and his utterances and writings have had much influence among Republicans in the East. President Aydelotte of Swarthmore not only runs a coeducational college and supervises the Rhodes Scholar selections, but is active in the cause of world peace. Here in Massachusetts when the Governor desired an impartial committee to review the Sacco-Vanzetti case, two of the three men chosen were the heads of the most important educational institutions in the state...
...today's CRIMSON that Professor Charles Austin Beard has accepted an invitation to lecture at Harvard during the latter part of March is welcomed with a keen sense of pleasure. Not only in the special fields of history and of government, in which he is a most accomplished scholar, but also in the whole range of education, his influence has been profoundly felt. With many students at Harvard, who have read his numerous books, his name has become a familiar byword...
...learned scholar who contributed to your columns yesterday has given us a working foundation for solving the weighty issue of the Junior Prom. He decided that the constituency of the 1929 affair was representative of the class as a whole, but that at the same time the grand total of those whom he would like to consider representative was negligible. Now although such a conclusion may sound facetious, there is a chance that it may be mathematically possible. To get at the truth, why not conduct a scientific experiment as follows...