Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Intelligence, however, gags at the off-quoted New Haven aphorism: Princeton boys, Harvard scholars, Yale men, though heretofore it has seemed to many impossible thoroughly to do anything intellectual without assuming the title of scholar. It is doubtful if the amount of independent research work done in any undergraduate department can do more than develop the initiative and mental independence of the person involved. Scholarship only becomes dangerous when it centers interest on the piddling detail at the expense of the panorama of truth. Hardly before a man becomes a Ph.D. can he be said to have lost anything...
...Dominic Bevan Wyndham Lewis arrived in the U. S. last week, was greeted and dined by Manhattan writer-folk. He is of Welsh-Irish ancestry, lives in St. Germain outside Paris, sends a regular column of comment to the London Daily Mail. He is an authoritative medievalist, a tireless scholar who disclaims his labors in his disdain for watery-veined pedants. He hates the "arty." His distant cousin is the more-famed Wyndham Lewis, vorticist, painter, novelist (Tarr), philosopher (Time and Western Man), a versatile, experimental da Vinci of the modern art world. Both are World War veterans, who combine...
...come over here expecting to find Harvard a hotbed of collegiatism; my disillusionment was most welcome," John Maud, Davidson Scholar from Oxford declared in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter last night. "Coming over on the boat I had read several novels of College life in America, and I must confess that I proceeded to Harvard with the greatest trepedation. Oxford is tremendously amused at the so called 'College Spirit...
...Davidson Scholar comes from New College, one of the three large colleges of Oxford University, and finds points of difference quite striking. "You are much busier here than the majority of Oxford students appear to be Meals in English colleges are always a social event. Here one dashes into a cafeteria and dashes out again with as little delay as possible; there, even when eating at college, we take a great deal of time. Most entertaining comes at meal time and a lunch invitation may easily last from noon till tea time, while a dinner invitation always takes from...
...Nicols is beginning his second year as an assistant dean. Mr. Nichols, while attending Harvard, was president of the Crimson and a member of the Student Council. He attended Hallol College Oxford University, for a year as a Rhode Scholar after graduating from the University...