Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cardinal O'Connell is a scholar, a great organizer,* a most understanding man. None knows better than he that, while his Church is the largest single religious unit in the U.S., the combined Protestant bodies are far more numerous...
...disillusion did not last long. When I entered the cave containing the manuscripts. I saw that most of them were still there. Of the 15000 scrolls, documents, paintings, Sir Aurel Stein had only been able to acquire about one fourth, and, being an Indian and not a Chinese scholar, had had to be content with buying a certain number of bundles without making an examination of the rest. I then squatted in the cave and in the course of two weeks, all the manuscripts passed through my hands, about one thousand a day. Finally, I bought all of them which...
...same time it was announced that for the second successive year the Massachusetts Scholarship had been awarded to a man who was not a student of Harvard or Williams. This year's Rhodes Scholar from Massachusetts is M. A. MacIntyre, Yale '29, of Boston...
...Hoover put on his cutaway and high hat for the first time during the trip. Costa Ricans are ceremonious. Then, there was a 70-mile rail trip, climbing most of the way through tropical mountains, to San Jose, the capital. President Cleto Gonzalez Viquez, a bold gentleman with a scholar's brow, delivered perhaps the most sense-making speech of welcome thus far. He warmly and respectfully welcomed "the illustrious statesman and distinguished organizer," referred to the U.S. as a "colossus," acknowledged Costa Rica's debt to the late Chief Justice White of the U.S.* and, without flourishes...
...functions of the American university graduate who studies abroad are generally vague and difficult. More especially when the travelling scholar has been honored in being the recipient of a fellowship is his position troublesome. The establishment of Rhodes scholars and the like as a sort of congenial and unofficial ambassadors to the land of their sojourn has tended to become a reversible reaction, with the result that frequent lamentations have bewailed these men as Caligulas trying to reign in a new Rome and making only a sorry pottage of their distinction...