Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Mary Whittle Moody, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. William Ravell Moody of East Northfield, Mass., granddaughter of Evangelist Dwight L. Moody; to Arthur Worthington Packard, son of Mrs. Charles H. Packard of Dorchester, Mass., onetime Rhodes Scholar, Field Secretary of the World Peace Foundation...
...months ago Eleutherios Venizelos, scholar, statesman, translator into modern Greek of an historical opus by Thucydides (TIME, March 22, 1926), deserted the pleasant island of Crete where he was born, and journeyed to Athens...
...with several companions, to do so. By the time the party reached Paris, they were broke. When they drew lots to see which one should stay in Paris instead of going further, Horowitz got the short straw. Paris, he knew, was no place for a Yale French scholar to live in, so he went to London and stayed there among the chop suey dishes and Chinese laundries of the Limehouse district. When he came back to the U. S., he was a stowaway in the stoker's forecastle of a tramp ship...
Harry Augustus Garfield: Scholar, public administrator in the strain of war, for a score of years the strong, vigorous and judicious President of Williams College...
Dean Mitchell believes that the superior intellectual background of the Oxford man entities him to the privilege of scholar's freedom while the American student "needs the give and take of the recitation room and the careful, almost daily, guidance and supervision, not of one instructor but of several." Such treatment does not go to the core of difficulty which lies in the smattering methods of the secondary schools. These have, in turn been foisted on the school by the college entrance system of credit units, which emphasizes the distributive in college entrance system of credit units, which emphasizes...