Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chinese press of Peking told excitedly in dainty, complex characters, last week, strange news of the great but fallen Scholar War Lord...
...story hinted at much stately converse between Wu Pei-fu and the Buddhist abbot of the monastery. The War Lord who has been all his life a scholar, and a great one, was said to have explained that his last military followers had finally deserted him, and that he wished to become a bonze or Buddhist monk and to retire utterly from the world. What good Father Abbot would reject the chance to garner such...
Occidental skeptics at Peking pointed out, last week, that the ceremony just described is common enough in the Buddhist monasteries of China but differs slightly from Tibetan practice. They doubted the exactness of the Chinese newspapers as to details, but hoped that Scholar Wu Pei-fu has indeed attained a seclusion and a retirement congenial to his tastes...
...Rhodes scholar is to be trusted in the editorial department of a U.S. newspaper, for his association with Englishmen may be presumed to have made him an unpatriotic propagandist. In education he is even more dangerous, for the young people of the U. S. are an impressionable lot. He might be given a business job if concern had no foreign trade and never touched a foreign bond. If he should become a laborer, he might poison union minds with European socialism. As a scientist he would have to be watched, for there is no telling what dastardly machines he might...
...preeminently the type of scholar which has done the most to raise the academic standards of Harvard to their present high national and international rank. While his crowning honor came with the Noble prize for special achievement in chemistry in 1914, he had previously, in 1901, received a flattering invitation from the Prussian government which indirectly was a compliment to Harvard and the scientific advances of American universities in general. In declining the offer then made him of a full professorship of inorganic chemistry at the University of Gottingen, Professor Richards revealed an appreciation of and a loyalty to Harvard...